STUDIO CITY : House Defaced With Swastikas
Vandals spray-painted more than three-dozen black swastikas on a vacant Studio City house in the third hate crime reported in the San Fernando Valley within a week, Los Angeles police said Tuesday.
The newly constructed residence in the 4300 block of Rhodes Avenue was vandalized between noon Monday and 6 a.m. Tuesday, when a real estate agent found the graffiti, Police Lt. Ron LaRue said. Police counted 37 black swastikas painted on walls and windows.
LaRue said police had no clear indication of a motive.
He added that there does not appear to be a connection between the Studio City incident and two other recent hate crimes.
Friday or early Saturday, intruders spray-painted walls, furniture and equipment with anti-Semitic statements at Valley Torah High School, a Jewish school in North Hollywood. And the walls of two classrooms and a stairwell at Cal State Northridge were defaced with anti-Semitic sayings and symbols.
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