The Nation : Vandals Paint Mile-Long Trail of Slurs

Vandals spray-painted a swath of swastikas and racial slurs across Wellesley, Mass., defacing a new downtown building, mailboxes, garages, homes and cars over a mile-long trail. Messages included racist, white supremacist, anti-Semitic and anti-police slogans as well as swastikas, said Wellesley Police dispatcher Michael Gerard. Jewish residents of the town west of Boston expressed outrage at the incidents, which occurred just hours before the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. “The Jewish community, of course, is troubled by this,” Rabbi Ronald Weiss said. “It reminds us in a very visible way that this kind of anger and hatred are out there.”