SPRAYING HATE
Racist Qns. graffiti
A hateful vandal scrawled “F--K WHITE PEOPLE” in front of a Queens home, and defaced nearby trees and fences with other profane messages, police said Friday.
The spray-painted graffiti was discovered on the sidewalk in front of a home on 151st Avenue near 81st Street in Lindenwood on Thanksgiving morning, cops said.
Found on nearby trees were spray-painted messages reading “F--K WHITE,” and simply, “F--K,” police and witnesses said.
The messages were discovered at around 4 a.m. and reported to police at around 10 a.m., according to authorities.
Nearby fences were also found defaced with graffiti that read, “I NEED P---Y ASAP,” and “ONE DAY I WILL COME BACK TO THIS AND SEE HOW SUCCESSFUL I AM!”
“It’s not safe. We’re afraid,” said Lina Bachour, 38, who lives at the home where the “F--K WHITE PEOPLE” graffiti was scrawled. It isn’t clear if Bachour or anyone else was targeted.
Another neighbor, Barry Rachnowitz, 70, found part of his fence spray-painted in red.
“This is horrible,” he said. “There are no words to share my disgust right now. It is definitely a hate crime, especially what they wrote on the [sidewalk].”
On Friday, PJ Marcel worked with another neighbor to scrub the paint off the fences. “It’s horrendous that something of this caliber would be posted on a fence on a holiday,” he said. No arrests have been made. The vandalism occurred roughly a mile away from Howard Beach, where in 1986 three bat-wielding white teens chased black construction worker Michael Griffith onto a highway where he was hit and killed by a car, inflaming racial tensions.