EAST BETHEL, Vt. — Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying whoever was responsible for a racial slur that was discovered spray painted across the surface of Route 14 near Factory Hill Road on Tuesday morning, Vermont State Police said in a news release on Tuesday.
A road crew from Vermont Department of Transportation’s District 4 office based in White River Junction was dispatched to remove the graffiti. It is the second incident of racist vandalism to occur in the Upper Valley in less than a month, following an Oct. 31 attack in which half a dozen Sullivan County properties were spray painted with racist slurs in Newport, Croydon and Claremont.
Anyone with information about the East Bethel incident is asked to contact the Vermont State Police at the Royalton barracks at 802-234-9933, or via an anonymous tip online on the VSP website.
VSP said it informed the Vermont Attorney General’s Office of the incident as a possible hate crime under the Bias Incident Reporting System. The defacement on Route 14 was first reported to State Police by a Valley News staff photographer.
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