Hate Graffiti Spray Painted on Capital Crescent Trail
The graffiti of a swastika has been removed and police are investigating, officials said.
A swastika that was spray painted over the weekend on the Capital Crescent Trail near Elm Street in Bethesda has been removed, according to officials. A photo of the hate graffiti was posted by a Patch reader Saturday on the Bethesda Patch Facebook page. The graffiti was decried by commenters on the Facebook thread, who called the graffiti upsetting and hateful. “This is both entirely unacceptable and shameful to see in a supposedly enlightened community,” wrote Patch reader Carolyn Elefant via Facebook. Ken Hartman, Bethesda-Chevy Chase regional services center director, told Patch the graffiti would be removed by the Bethesda Urban Partnership. Montgomery County police would also investigate, Hartman said. “Sadly, we often find the …
Kurt Zimmermann
10:56 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Ajay - you're right, of course. I've seen it in Pueblo Indian art as well. The swastika here is a counter-clockwise one, not the clockwise variant favored by the Nazis. So it would seem the perpetrator was doubly foolish, once for defacing public property with a symbol most Americans associate with hatred and then a second time for not even getting the symbol right. more ›