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The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a hate crime investigation after several Jewish-owned businesses were vandalized in Woodland Hills. This includes two adjacent stores.
A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed to KTLA that officers responded to a report of vandalism at a store in the 20900 block of Victory Boulevard just after 8 a.m. Saturday.
When they arrived, they found a stone with a note written in Aramaic had been thrown at the store.
Surveillance camera video showed a man walking up to the store and throwing a rock at the storefront.
One business owner believes that two Jewish-owned businesses next door on the same property were probably vandalized by the same suspects.
“Apparently, only me and my neighbor who had a mezuzah outside were the only ones who were broken into,” one shop owner said. “So we know this is a hate crime. And strangely, when we went in, there were stones that said ‘Give Back’ and ‘Glory.’ I don’t know what that means.”
“Obviously they’re not happy that we have Jews in the neighborhood,” he added.
The owners of the destroyed store told KTLA that another store (a dance studio) was destroyed the same morning, and another nearby Jewish-owned establishment was destroyed two days earlier.
The dance studio owner confirmed that she was not Jewish.
No injuries were reported in either vandalism. The suspicious statements were not immediately made public.
KTLA photojournalist Phil Ige contributed to this report.
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