A Cook County judge on Saturday lashed out at two Northwestern University freshmen accused of spray-painting racist and homophobic messages along with the name of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump inside a nondenominational chapel on the university's campus.
“These
allegations are disgusting to me,” Judge Peggy Chiampas said as she
eyeballed Anthony Morales, 19, and Matthew Kafker, 18, her voice rising
several times during a bond hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court
Building.
The judge ordered both men held in lieu of $50,000 bail for charges
of institutional vandalism, hate crime to a place of worship, and
criminal damage to property for several spray-painted messages at the
Alice Millar Chapel earlier this week.
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Once inside the chapel, the pair spray-painted an expletive and a
slur against African-Americans with a swastika on the chapel hallway,
Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Brooke Shupe told the court. In a
separate area, they spray-painted a derogatory word for homosexuals on a
wall, along with lines spray-painted over photos of Muslim students.
The
young men also spray-painted penises in several places around the
church, including on a piano in the chapel, above the word “God” in a
hallway, and in a stairwell where they also painted the word “Trump,”
authorities said, Shupe said.
Northwestern University students charged with hate crime, vandalism to chapel - Chicago Tribune
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