{"id":180261,"date":"2026-03-30T23:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:36:15","slug":"police-investigate-incident-of-5-swastikas-found-on-playground-equipment-at-hutchinson-elementary-school-pelham-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180261\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate incident of 5 swastikas found on playground equipment at Hutchinson Elementary School \u2013 Pelham Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pelham resident found five swastikas etched on parts of the playground at the Hutchinson Elementary School Sunday afternoon. The resident alerted the Village of Pelham Police Department and also alerted members of a Facebook group for local parents.<\/p>\n<p>An entry on the police blotter from March 29 indicates<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-82076 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/swastika-blotter-entry-cropped-1-600x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"152\"  \/> that two officers went to the area and \u201cfound, written in pencil, five swastikas\u201d as well as the words \u201cHitler\u201d and \u201cIndia.\u201d The blotter entry noted that there was no indication of who defaced the property or when the incident occurred, only that the \u201cwriting was removed and no damage to property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pelham resident found five swastikas etched on parts of the playground at the Hutchinson Elementary School Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-180261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}