Hateful graffiti — together with a swastika and profanities towards a number of ethnic teams — was discovered scrawled on the wall inside an NYU library in downtown Brooklyn this week, cops mentioned.
The messages, written in pen on the wall of the Bern Dibner Library at 4 MetroTech Middle, included “F–okay Jews” and “F–okay Indians,” in line with a photograph posted on Instagram by an on-campus Jewish group.
The vile scribblings additionally included anti-black messages, police mentioned.
A 53-year-old lady noticed the disturbing vandalism and reported it to police round 10 a.m. Wednesday, cops mentioned.
Fountain Walker, vp for world campus security at NYU, condemned the graffiti and mentioned the NYPD deemed the incident a hate crime, in line with Washington Sq. Information, the college’s pupil paper.
“The abhorrent graffiti included hateful rhetoric directed at Blacks, hateful rhetoric directed at Indians and hateful antisemitic rhetoric,” Walker mentioned.
“Our Division of Campus Security, together with our Title VI coordinator, is vigorously investigating this incident.”
These accountable shall be topic to “the complete weight” of NYU’s disciplinary actions, Walker mentioned.
