Racist graffiti targeting black students at California high school removed without parents’ knowledge

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From NBC Southern California:

Two cases of racially charged graffiti at a high school in upscale Agoura Hills are being investigated by a hate crime unit, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials said.

Deputies were reviewing surveillance footage and providing extra patrols on Thursday around Agoura High School, where officials found racist graffiti against black students on Sunday and Wednesday.

The scrawls were first discovered on Sunday on at least 10 buildings on the campus, which has 31 African-American students among a largely white student body of 2,150, according to school officials.

Some parents said they were not initially notified about the graffiti, which was quickly painted over.

On Wednesday, school officials found more graffiti in the boys’ bathroom that named five individual black students’ names alongside threats.

“I felt like they were not valuing my son’s life or his well-being. And if you’re not going to communicate to me and tell me what the possible threat is — we’re talking about deadly force here. We’re talking about a hit list being put on a wall. Of course I was going to be very upset about that,” said parent Ron Cash, whose child is an African-American student at the campus.

Cash’s son was not targeted, but his friend was. Cash and his wife Gina Aubrey were concerned.

Aubrey said their 17-year-old son has been at the school for four years and has felt “very safe” and experienced no “racial incidents.”

“He’s never felt under any threat and never had any reason to,” Aubrey said

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