Before they lit their first Hanukkah candle at sundown, Jewish Beverly Hills residents woke up on Sunday to find Anti-Semitic flyers placed in zip-lock bags and weighed down by rice on their front lawns, police said.
A resident reported a flyer containing 'hate speech' on their lawn around 6am on the first day of Hanukkah, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department.
The police department said it will be sending additional patrols through the area throughout Hanukkah to ensure a safe holiday season for residents. They are still investigating the incident, and have yet to identify a culprit.
'We take these matters very seriously and we will not allow our residents to be threatened or intimidated by any narrative promoting hate toward anyone,' the department said in a statement.
Beverly Hills Mayor Bob Wunderlich told CBSLA that hate speech wouldn't be tolerated in the city:
'Here in Beverly Hills, we do have a large Jewish population and so, unfortunately, we have been the target in the past for hate speech directed against Jews, and so it is something that we care about deeply and something that we won’t tolerate,' he said.
More than half of Beverly Hills' 35,000 residents are of Jewish faith.
A resident reported the flyer (pictured) containing 'hate speech,' placed in a zip-lock baggie weighed down by rice, around 6 am on the first day of Hanukkah, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department
'We take these matters very seriously and we will not allow our residents to be threatened or intimidated by any narrative promoting hate toward anyone,' the Beverly Hills Police Department said in a statement
More than half of Beverly Hills' 35,000 residents are of Jewish faith. Rodeo Drive is pictured on November 26
Beverly Hills Councilman John Mirisch posted an image of the flyer that states that 'every part of the COVID agenda is Jewish', to Twitter on Sunday.
The flyer lists the names of 15 prominent Jewish people working with the Center for Disease Control, federal government, companies manufacturing vaccines and financial firms backing the production of those vaccines.
Among the listed professionals were CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, Pfizer CEO Alberto Bourla, Pfizer Chief Scientist Mikael Dolstein, Larry Fink, CEO of the BlackRock investment management company, and Mortimer J. Buckley, the CEO of investment advisor The Vanguard Group.
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