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TexasTowelie

(116,783 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 10:09 PM Feb 2017

Headstones damaged at Jewish cemetery

UNIVERSITY CITY, MO. - Vandals damaged dozens of headstones at a Jewish cemetery over the weekend, police said Monday.

The damage is at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery at Olive and Hanley. Police said the damage took place over the weekend.

Some family members drove to the cemetery Monday evening to see if their loved one's headstone was toppled, but the cemetery was closed.

Karen Aroesty, the regional director for the St. Louis-area Anti-Defamation League, got a call about the vandalism around noon. She walked through the cemetery to see the damage for herself and said she was appalled. She hopes to work with investigators to figure out if this was a hate crime.

Read more and watch video: http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/headstones-damaged-at-jewish-cemetery1/410194492

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Sherman A1

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Tue Feb 21, 2017, 06:53 AM
Feb 2017

I have driven by this cemetery many times through the years always seemed to be a nice place.

I hope that whomever committed this act feels the full force of justice.

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