Kansas City, Mo. – A Jewish family living in the metro feels
targeted after someone spray-painted a swastika and a racist remark on the
sidewalk near their home. The vandalism mars the entrance to a public park
adjacent to their house called Scott Park, located near Scott Road and East
100th Terrace in Kansas City, Mo.
The words “white power” outline a swastika and sit near several other
random drawings.
“It looks like Nazi symbolism,” said Jesse, a Jewish man who lives in a
home just a few feet away. “To me it’s unbelievable that people would actually
do that.”
Jesse believes the vandalism is directed at his family and their faith.
“It’s nothing but harassment
and hatred towards Jewish people,” he said.
Jesse called the graffiti a “hateful response” to the menorah that sits
in their front window facing the street. He believes this is a hate crime meant
to intimidate and harass them.
“It makes me feel like people
in this community hate Jewish people for no reason at all, you know?” he said,
“because they’re Jewish? To me, that makes no sense and it’s unacceptable.”
Police are now investigating.
