MIDWOOD — Hate crime investigators are looking for a pair of men who scrawled a series swastikas in fresh concrete before swiping a camera they found while drawing the symbols, police said.
One of the suspects was caught on surveillance footage drawing approximately 20 swastikas in the newly poured concrete outside a parking lot at 242 Newkirk Ave. just after midnight on Saturday, police said. The man also wrote “mobundles” in the sidewalk, the NYPD said.
A second man was seen taking a camera from outside the property, which is located on the edge of Midwood and Kensington.
The first suspect was seen wearing a hooded sweatshirt, shorts and sneakers, police said. The second was seen wearing a short-sleeved shirt and dark pants.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is leading the investigation, police said.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, (888) 57-PISTA (74782).
