12 year olds arrested for drawing chalk swastikas on playground

Not only were they TWELVE, the two kids responsible were black and Asian.

"At some point during the winter break last month, someone covered the playground of a public school in the Rego Park section of Queens with swastikas and other anti-Semitic sentiments. Either poor spellers or unfamiliar with the exact phrasing of the Nazi salute, whoever was responsible inscribed the words “Hail Hiter” on the ground in chalk.

Several days later, two boys were arrested and charged with aggravated harassment. They came from the neighborhood, one that has long been predominantly white and Jewish but grown more diverse in recent years with an influx of Asian immigrants.

After the initial arrest, the Police Department’s chief of detectives, Dermot Shea, quickly took to Twitter to commend the “great job” accomplished by his colleagues in the hate-crimes unit he oversees and to say that “no matter the face of hate,” New York will exhibit “ZERO tolerance” for it.

In this case the face of hate was the face of two children of color — one black, the other Asian — who were 12 years old.

The incident occurred within the context of rising anti-Semitic crimes in the city and around the country, which is surely why law enforcement felt compelled to advertise such a negligible victory in the war against prejudice.

There have already been close to 40 such cases in New York this year, a nearly twofold increase over the same period last year. Neither the police department nor community leaders in the affected neighborhoods have determined the reason for the upsurge. Surely the bigotry that has been making more frequent appearances on the American stage since the Trump years is partly to blame."


NYT being totally serious

They neglect to mention that the "upsurge in hate crimes" only exists because the definition of said crimes has expanded so wildly over the last couple years; as evidenced by arresting 12 year olds for chalk drawings.

If my kid did something like this I'd be disappointed in him, but equally as pissed at the police for treating him like some menace to society.

How do they write this stuff with a straight face?