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Swastika, Anti-Black Graffiti Spray-Painted On NYU Building: NYPD

Police are looking for a man who spray-painted a swastika along with anti-Black rhetoric on the side of an NYU building in the West Village.

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Police are looking for a man who spray-painted a swastika and anti-Black rhetoric on the side of a New York University building in the West Village.
Police are looking for a man who spray-painted a swastika and anti-Black rhetoric on the side of a New York University building in the West Village. (David Allen/Patch)

WEST VILLAGE, NY — Police are looking for a man who spray-painted a swastika and anti-Black rhetoric on the side of a New York University building in the West Village.

The racist and hateful act took place on Feb. 6 at 11:15 a.m. in front of an NYU campus building at 40 West 4th Street, according to police.

Police did not specify what the anti-Black rhetoric was.

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NYPD released a picture Wednesday night of a man wanted in connection to the incident.

Photo courtesy of the NYPD.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477.

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