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Police Investigating Hate Crime After Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found At Tracy Elementary School

TRACY (CBS13) — Tracy Police are conducting a hate crime investigation after anti-Semitic graffiti was found at an elementary school.

According to police, two portable classroom buildings at Poet Christian Elementary School on S. Central Avenue were burglarized and vandalized on the evening of June 12. School security discovered the classrooms had been ransacked and vandalized with graffiti that included derogatory anti-Semitic words and symbols, police said.

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Police said they have notified the FBI in this case and wrote in a press release, the department "will never tolerate any act of hatred or bias-motivated crimes."

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Detective Cisneros at (209) 831-6615 or gustavo.cisneros@tracypd.com.

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