Hateful, racist, anti-Semitic graffiti discovered inside rest room at Oak Park and River Forest Excessive College

OAK PARK, Sick. (CBS) — Hateful, racist graffiti was found Friday at Oak Park and River Forest Excessive College, and now police are getting concerned.

As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported Friday evening, this was the second time Oak Park police have been known as to the varsity this week alone. This time, they went inside a restroom and began investigating due to what one other scholar did.

Two photos of the vandalism have sparked worry and concern at OPRF. Somebody scribbled the N-word and a swastika on a rest room stall within the first image.

The second picture reveals identical racial slur and anti-Semitic graffiti on a wall.

A scholar discovered the graffiti round 11 a.m. Friday in a second-floor boys’ rest room, the varsity stated.

“We’re seeing it in many faculties,” stated Alison Pure-Slovin, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

She defined the mission of her group.

“Human rights for all folks,” she stated. “It does not make a distinction who you worship, should you worship, who you like, the place you come from.”

The middle compiles a digital hate report throughout the nation and Illinois.

“That is the issue. The web is the issue,” stated Pure-Slovin. “For those who undergo the web sites – the deep, darkish net – they’re pushing out hate, and imagine me in the event that they hate a Jew, they will hate an African American.”

Pure-Slovin believes the varsity district should take the suitable measures to deal with this newest hate speech at the highschool.

“We’re going to converse to the superintendent,” she stated, “as a result of sadly, it is not the primary incident at that faculty.”

Again in 2018, comparable hateful phrases popped up on the identical highschool – however the distinction within the incident this time is that the varsity district will not be the one group taking motion.

Police are additionally investigating to attempt to discover out who’s behind the hateful graffiti.

“The very fact police are investigating tells me that they are lastly taking anti-Semitism very significantly,” Pure-Slovin stated.

And with this occurring the identical week a scholar was arrested on school grounds with a loaded gun, Pure-Slovin says you may’t take any probabilities.

“We should always take any menace significantly,” she stated. “We do not know who the lone wolf is.”

College leaders despatched an e mail to oldsters, calling what was found within the faculty restroom hate speech “and a criminal offense.”

“Please take into account that posting hateful speech or symbols spreads it and has unintended dangerous penalties for the communities at which it’s directed. Please, should you see any hate speech on faculty grounds, slightly than publish about it, instantly notify safety employees within the Welcome Heart by dialing extension 3125 if you’re within the constructing or calling 708-434-3125 if you’re outdoors the constructing,” faculty principal Lynda Parker stated in a press release. 

We all know there are cameras within the hallways – a part of an inside probe will contain trying them over.