At least 300 people, including Beastie Boys singer Adam Horovitz, protest in New York against what they say are hate crimes inspired by the election of Donald Trump, after swastikas appeared in a Brooklyn park.
The park bears the name of Adam Yauch, a bassist and singer with the Beastie Boys who militated for human rights. The popular group broke up in 2012 following his death of cancer. Yauch had played in the park as a child.
Sometime before Friday morning, vandals used spray paint to draw awkwardly formed swastikas and the words “Go Trump” on a children’s locomotive in a playground.
City workers quickly painted over the graffiti, and by Sunday the locomotive had been covered with flowers, hearts, messages of love and Tibetan flags, in tribute to Yauch, who was a Buddhist.
The defacement — of a sort seen in many parts of the country since Trump’s shock election, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors extremism — sparked widespread outrage on social media.
— AFP
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