Yorktown, NY – Many residents in Yorktown are upset after messages were spray-painted under the Northbound Bridge where the Taconic Parkway passes over the Croton Reservoir.
Yorktown police say the graffiti was reported to have contained the work “Kike” and references to killing Jews in gas chambers. Yorktown police covered up the slurs with black spray paint, as can be seen in the photo above.
The graffiti, which was signed with the initials JJC, was done in blue spray paint and said “Jackson C. Hates N….S” as well as an antisemitic statement, said Chief Robert Noble, of the Yorktown Police.
The discovery is just over a week after the racially motivated shooting at a Buffalo supermarket and a recent report from the Anti-Defamation League that found antisemitic incidents at an all-time high in the U.S.
In a statement, Yorktown Town Supervisor Matt Slater says, in part, “We will not let this disgusting and ignorant language define us. Hate has no home here and we will continue to stamp it out whenever it raises its wicked head.”
