Crime & Safety
Mercer Island High School Vandalized with Anti-Semitic Slurs
Along with the ethnic slurs, vulgar references and phallic images, the graffiti included positive references to Bellevue, which implied a link to Bellevue High School, Mercer Island Police reported.
Anti-Semitic slurs and vulgar terms and images were scrawled in chalk and poster paint on the windows and walkways of Mercer Island High School over the weekend, Mercer Island Police reported.
Police said that some of the graffiti suggested that Bellevue High School students may have been responsible, according to the report.
The vandalism was reported the morning of Saturday, June 1, by a Mercer Island district employee, according to the police report.
Along with the ethnic slurs, vulgar references and phallic images, the graffiti included positive references to Bellevue, which implied a link to Bellevue High School, a Mercer Island police officer noted on the report.
The Mercer Island Police Department took photos of the vandalism and collected surveillance video from the district, according to the report. The school district cleaned up the graffiti.
Bellevue High School's Wolverine Stadium bell was reportedly defaced with paint last month in the late night hours before a boys lacrosse contest between Mercer Island and Bellevue.
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