Intruder scrawls racist message inside Brighton Park home; cops investigate as possible hate crime
<p>Police are investigating a hate crime after someone broke into a Brighton Park neighborhood home and vandalized it Monday on the Southwest Side. </p><p>The owner called officers after arriving at his home that is being renovated around 9 a.m.
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<p>Police are investigating a hate crime after someone broke into a Brighton Park neighborhood home and vandalized it Monday on the Southwest Side. </p><p>The owner called officers after arriving at his home that is being renovated around 9 a.m. in the 3100 block of West Pershing Street and finding a racist comment graffitied into the building, according to a police report obtained by the Sun-Times.</p><p>The owner, a man of Asian descent, found that someone had damaged three electrical panels, removed copper pipes and wrote “F*ck China” in black paint on a wall, the report said. He told officers he believed the intruder may have used a ladder to enter the home through a second floor window and left through the home's front door.</p><p>No arrests were made.<br></p>
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- <p>Police are investigating a hate crime after someone broke into a Brighton Park neighborhood home and vandalized it Monday on the Southwest Side. </p><p>The owner called officers after arriving at his home that is being renovated around 9 a.m.
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