USA - Police arrest two teens on lower East Side for antisemetic spree

Police arrested two teens who have been terrorizing Jewish residents and sites on the lower East Side with eggs, smoke bombs and swastikas.

The youngsters kicked off the antisemitic spree when, armed with a magic marker and a smoke bomb, they scrawled a swastika on a wall at the United Hebrew Center on East Broadway. They set off the smoke device, too, before bolting.

An hour later at the Bialystoker Synagogue, the teens drew another swastika and wrote the slur "Kike" on a wall. They later hurled eggs at the house of worship.

The kids - a 15-year-old Asian male and a 16-year-old black male, were charged with aggravated harassment, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, all as hate crimes.

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/

By Alison Gendar and Wil Cruz

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