Police probe 'offensive message' at Philadelphia Jewish museum
Police are searching for a suspect who defaced the “OY/YO” art statue at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History with an “offensive message” on Aug. 13, a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson told JNS.
At approximately 8:11 p.m., “an unidentified white male vandalized” the sculpture on the grounds of the Smithsonian-affiliated institution “by writing an offensive message on it,” police said.
Surveillance footage captured the suspect approaching the statue and then boarding a train at a nearby station about five minutes later.
No arrests have been made. Detectives are investigating the incident, including its possible classification as a hate crime, the department told JNS.
The vandalism follows an incident nearly a year ago in which a vandal spray-painted the museum’s facade, plaza and an Israeli flag.
Andrew Goretsky, the Anti-Defamation League’s senior regional director, told ABC 6 that the latest incident was “incredibly frustrating” but “not surprising.”
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Philadelphia police are investigating the defacement of the "OY/YO" art sculpture at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History on August 13. An unidentified white male vandalized the statue by writing an "offensive message" on it around 8:11 p.m. Surveillance footage shows the suspect approaching the sculpture and then boarding a train shortly after. Detectives are examining the incident, including its potential classification as a hate crime. This act of vandalism follows a similar incident nearly a year ago when the museum's facade and an Israeli flag were spray-painted.
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