Anti-Semitic Flyers Discovered in Student Lockers
Anti-Semitic and anti-black flyers were stuffed in about 150 student lockers at Nobel Junior High School in Northridge, campus officials said Tuesday.
The flyers were discovered by students Monday in outside lockers easily accessible to passersby, Principal Ernest Scarcelli said, adding that “we don’t think this involved any of our students.”
The flyers were turned over to Los Angeles police, but no laws appear to have been violated, Detective Ken Crocker said. “It may not be appropriate to distribute these at a school, but as far as we can tell, this was not a hate crime,” he said.
The flyers include the letters NSWAP and list post office boxes in Pacific Palisades, Marietta, Ga., and Reading, Pa.
NSWAP is the acronym of the Pacific Palisades-based National Socialist White American Party, according to Jerry Shapiro, associate director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Anti Defamation League.
“This is their standard tactic,” Shapiro said. “It’s a recruiting tool. They’re looking for disaffected kids.”
Scarcelli said a similar incident occurred about eight or 10 years ago at Nobel, which is on Tampa Avenue at Lassen Street.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
