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Northern Kentucky University to Investigate White Supremacy Graffiti

Northern Kentucky University will investigate – and increase nightly police patrols – after white supremacy graffiti was found on campus, the second vandalization since the year’s start, CNN reported.

Northern Kentucky University E1617640894390The graffiti, found on public space “Housing Rock”  included spray-painted stencils of the words, “Patriot Front,” in reference to white nationalist hate group Patriot Front.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, members of the group “maintain that their ancestors conquered America and bequeathed it solely to them.”

“NKU will not tolerate the white supremacy graffiti defacing our campus today or any day,” the school’s president, Dr. Ashish Vaidya, said in a statement Saturday.

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