Harvard police are investigating the defacement of law school portraits as a hate crime
The day after Harvard students took part in a demonstration against racism on campus, someone put pieces of black tape over the faces of black professors in portraits hanging in the law school.
The incident is being investigated by the Harvard University Police Department as a hate crime, according to the law school’s dean, Martha Minow.
“Expressions of hatred are abhorrent, whether they be directed at race, sex, sexual preference, gender identity, religion, or any other targets of bigotry,’’ she said in a statement.
Third-year law student Jonathan Wall tweeted out an image of the defaced portraits.
“I was shocked. I was shocked, and I was obviously disgusted. Especially because it seems to be in response to yesterday’s day of activism,’’ Wall told The Boston Globe.
Steven Catalano, a spokesman for the Harvard University Police Department, said Friday that the investigation is active and ongoing.
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