{"id":7770,"date":"2016-03-02T17:11:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2016-03-02T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:12:08","slug":"toms-river-investigating-anti-semitic-statement-carved-into-playground-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/03\/toms-river-investigating-anti-semitic-statement-carved-into-playground-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River PD Investigating Anti-Semitic Statement Carved Into Playground Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An anti-Semitic statement carved into playground equipment in Toms RIver. (Photo: TRPD)<\/p><\/div>\n

Toms River police have identified the location of an anti-Semitic statement carved into playground equipment after photos began circulating online.<\/p>\n

Police became aware of the carving, which read, \u201cBurn the Jews,\u201d inscribed into the equipment after a photograph appeared online and came to the attention of the Lakewood Civilian Patrol, a volunteer group in that town.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin an hour, the location was determined to be at the Riverwood Rodeo playground equipment at Riverwood Park,\u201d said police spokesman Ralph Stocco. \u201cThis anti-Semitic statement, as well as several other foul words was scratched into the equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement included \u201cobvious spelling errors,\u201d Stocco noted. The phrase has been removed from the equipment from the township\u2019s Buildings and Grounds Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn investigation was opened and we are trying to determine if this graffiti was done by ignorant teenagers or was of a more direct and sinister nature directed at the Jewish faith,\u201d Stocco said, in a statement. \u201cEither way, if a suspect is identified, they will be charged within the limits of the law. It should be noted that in some instances, when a crime is of a bias nature, it is elevated to a higher level of prosecution and penalties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is urged to contact the police department.<\/p>\n

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Toms River police have identified the location of an anti-Semitic statement carved into playground equipment after photos began circulating online. Police became aware of the carving, which read, \u201cBurn the Jews,\u201d inscribed into the equipment after a photograph appeared online and came to the attention of the Lakewood Civilian Patrol, a volunteer group in that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1975,24,100],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-anti-semitism","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-02-at-5.11.14-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-21k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}