On Friday, police officers from the Brooklyn North destroyed scratched on the pavement of a swastika, which said residents of the area.
As reported by DNAinfo, the officers poured cement 20-inch Nazi symbol on the sidewalk in the area of Kingsland Avenue,a few days after he complained to the North Brooklyn Community group on Facebook.
The swastika has sent a resident of Greenpoint Jess Ryan. In June, she several times complained to 311, but there did not react to her signals.
«I didn’t want this symbol of oppression and hatred were on was here, where every day pass by me and my neighbors, becoming part of everyday life,» she said.
The special unit for combating crimes of hate last week documented the case and started its investigation, and on Friday, three staff members from the Department went to the scene to hide the symbol of Nazism.
Police officers covering a swastika etched into the sidewalk with cement. pic.twitter.com/hNcX59W0t1
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«It is too long here. This is simply unacceptable,» said the detective next record,
The inhabitant of the house, which is near the sidewalk, on which was a swastika, said the symbol has been there for decades and insisted that this image originally associated with Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
Another bystander said that he has been here two years, but never noticed the swastika.
55-year-old Teresa Tikal,who lived in Greenpoint all my life, and said that never before did not pay attention to the character, although it passed this section of the route countless times. Nevertheless, she expressed the opinion that now, when everything is so sensitive to such symbols of hatred, they should get rid of.
