A 26-year-old black man has been charged with spray painting Swastikas at Providence College in Rhode Island, with his behavior apparently being inspired by his anti-American beliefs.
Keveon Gomera is being charged with assault with intent to commit a felony and vandalism. Law enforcement claims that he also defaced gravestones and attempted to set a fire to American flags that were set up at the Dominican Cemetery on campus.
“Officers approached the individual to question what he was doing and to confirm the vandalism when they noticed the suspect had painted swastikas and anti-Catholic language on the cemetery’s central cross and on several of the headstones, and was actively burning American flags that stood at some of the gravesites,” said Fr. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., and Fr. Kenneth Sicard, O.P., the president and president-elect of the college, in a statement.
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