Pro-Hitler And Trump Graffiti Found On Brooklyn Bridge

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Someone wrote “Hitler did nothing wrong” on the Brooklyn Bridge and added a shout-out to President Donald Trump.

The message was written on the metal railings that run alongside the bridge’s pedestrian walkway sometime before Aug. 1, when a tipster alerted Patch to the graffiti.

The white writing defaces a metal beam on the south side of the bridge, between the two arches, closer to the Manhattan entrance.

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Pedestrians crossing the bridge responded with disgust.

“That’s gross,” said one man. “Someone should draw over it.”

“It’s disgusting,” a woman responded.

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Police did not have immediately have information about whether the scrawl would be investigated as a hate crime, but similar acts of vandalism, such as when State Senator Brad Hoylman found two swastikas in his building and when vandals covered a Williamsburg apartment building with the Nazi mark, have been investigated by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force.

Hate crimes spiked in the weeks following Donald Trump’s election in November, 2016, and Politico reported many of those incidents had an anti-semitic bent.

Photos by Kathleen Culliton