ROSWELL, Ga. — A local pastor out for a walk in Roswell earlier this week found several hate symbols spray-painted along the trail in a popular park.
Brian Webb found several swastikas around Old Mill Park in Roswell, that were seemingly put there on the last day of Hanukkah.
“I looked, and I said, ‘I cannot believe this symbol of hate is right here to greet me,’” he said.
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Channel 2’s Michael Doudna went to the park on Wednesday and saw the symbols still there.
“On trails, the trees are used as markers to tell you you’re on the right path, but instead I found the tree that told me I shouldn’t even be here,” Webb said.
Roswell police told Doudna that the area of the park the swastikas are in falls under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, so it is their responsibility to have them removed.
“The bottom line is, human decency should say we ought to address this,” Webb said.
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Old Mill Park falls in the district of Georgia’s only Jewish lawmaker: State Rep. Esther Panitch.
“It’s not always easy, but it’s always necessary to push back on this kind of behavior,” she said. “The idea of ignoring it so it goes away and we don’t focus on it, that’s long gone. We have to fight back. We cannot allow this to be normalized.”
If that section of the park does fall under the National Park Service, that would mean the crime happened on federal land, and those responsible could face federal charges.
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