Ohio State University Police issued a hate-crime alert after someone spray-painted “Long Live Zimmerman” on the wall of the university Black Cultural Center, according the university’s student newspaper The Lantern. A second crime occurred off campus where a mural of President Barack Obama was vandalized with a racial slur.

The Obama Mural featured three swatiska symbols and the racial slur “N------!” The swastika was the symbol of the N--- party in Germany during World War II.

The hate crime email alert issued by police read, “The Clergy Act defines a hate crime as a criminal offense committed against a person or property which is motivated in whole or part by the offender’s bias.”



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