HYANNIS, Mass. — Crude graffiti in a Hyannis Cemetery has Barnstable police investigating a hate crime, according to HyannisNews.com.
Police were in Oak Grove Cemetery photographing and collecting evidence Monday morning where a number of gravestones and monuments were vandalized.
Some headstones had been knocked off their bases, while spray paint had been used to scrawl at least one anti-Semitic message.
About a dozen or more tombstones were either kicked over or otherwise vandalized, while some of the graffiti was directed at police officers.
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Some of the graffiti was fresh Monday morning, while other is part of an ongoing investigation.