Overnight Saturday a person or persons committed a hate and ethnic intimidation crime at Withrow University High School, a member of the Eastern Cincinnati Conference (ECC), the athletic conference of the Loveland School District.
This is a fellow school that our high and middle school students compete with in both physical and academic contests. Our children play with the children who attend Withrow. We go to Withrow to play. They come to Loveland to play.
The exterior of the building, sidewalks, and athletic facility were spray painted with hateful words and symbols. Swastikas, racist and homophobic slurs. Anti-Jewish words. The word “Trump” with threatening references to gays.
[pull_quote_left]By accepting membership in the ECC, all schools have implicitly pledged that when these children, their parents and teachers come to our gyms and classrooms, they will treated as our own. .[/pull_quote_left]By accepting membership in the ECC, all schools have implicitly pledged that when these children, their parents and teachers come to our gyms and classrooms, they will treated as our own.
Loveland Magazine condemns this act and calls on Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and his Civil Rights Section to investigate the incident.
Loveland magazine calls on the ECC, the Loveland School District, all member schools, athletic directors and principals to request Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and his Civil Rights Section to investigate the incident. And, to condemn this act in the strongest possible terms rather than making it a kumbaya occasion.
Ask DeWine to see that the criminals receive swift and sure justice and treat them like the vandals they are – allowing them no hero stature.
