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Oklahoma City man Stan Sells made a disturbing discovery Tuesday when he found a swastika in the grass near his home. Stan Sells, who has been involved in a longstanding dispute with a neighbor, believes the neighbor is responsible for this. act. The swastika, not visible from the road but clearly visible from Sells’ yard, has enraged and horrified him. Sells has a home security camera, but it didn’t help because he’s over 80 yards away and it was dark when the swastika was put in cut the grass.
An Oklahoma City man who found a swastika in the grass in front of his home said Thursday he believes it was done by a neighbor with whom he has a long-running dispute.
Stan Sells said he was mowing when he discovered the swastika on the verge of the road in front of his house on Tuesday. It is not visible from the road, but faces his house and can be clearly seen from his garden.
“I think I know who did it, but I have no proof,” Sells said. “It’s a neighbor I haven’t gotten along with for years.”
Sells refused to identify the neighbor, but said the man would yell at him if he saw Sells in his yard.
“(I) tried to talk to him and he started yelling at me, calling me names and telling me what he was going to do to me,” said Sells, 67, cursing.
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Sells said he had a security camera in front of his house, but that didn’t help because he was more than 80 meters away and it was dark when the swastika was mowed in the grass.
Sells said he reported the swastika, which he says was carved into the public highway, to both the Oklahoma City Police Department and the FBI.
FBI spokeswoman Kayla McCleery acknowledged the report but declined to call the incident a hate crime.
An Oklahoma City man who found a swastika in the grass in front of his house says he believes it was done by a neighbor with whom he has a long-running dispute.
“While we feel this is hate speech, it’s not something the FBI can investigate because it … probably falls under First Amendment protected free speech rights,” McCleery said.
The Oklahoma City Police Department did not immediately call back for comment.
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The swastika symbol, used by Nazi Germany, “has served as the most significant and infamous symbols of hate, anti-Semitism and white supremacy for most of the world” since 1945, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Sells, who said he is not Jewish, said the discovery drove him crazy.
“I just couldn’t believe someone would do that,” Sells said. He refused to speculate why someone would cut a swastika in his grass.
In 2019, vandals spray-painted racist, anti-gay and anti-Semitic slurs, including a swastika, outside Oklahoma Democratic Party headquarters and the offices of the Chickasaw Nation.
Mauricio Garcia, the man suspected of killing eight people and injuring several others during a May mass shooting at a shopping center in a suburb of Dallas, showed large tattoos on his arm and torso, including a swastika, in a post on a Russian social networking site.
