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Suspect Admits To Defacing Newspaper With Hate Symbols In Northern Westchester Suspect Admits To Defacing Newspaper With Hate Symbols In Northern Westchester
Suspect Admits To Defacing Newspaper With Hate Symbols In Northern Westchester Police have found the person who defaced a single copy of The Northern Westchester Examiner newspaper with hate symbols, according to the Examiner News.  Once the person was identified and admitted writing the swastikas and KKK on the paper, the Peekskill Police department said the person could not be charged due to First Amendment rights, the Examiner said. According to police, if the person had defaced a building or private property, an arrest could have been made. The defaced copy of the paper was found in the lobby of the Chase bank on Brown Street by a customer who visited the ba…

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by Kathy Reakes