
WESTPORT — Last week, the chairman of TEAM Westport declared that graffiti stoking racial hostility, which has defaced public places in town recently, has “got to stop.”
It hasn’t.
Another white supremacist-style message has been discovered at Compo Beach in a spot, some might say, appropriate for a hate slogan: a portable toilet.
“Diversity is code for anti-white,” was scrawled in black marker on the toilet, according to an email sent to the Westport Journal by a woman who noticed the graffiti while visiting the beach last week.
Harold Bailey Jr., the TEAM chairman, had called for an end to hate-inflected messages as the town’s multicultural committee heard a report about another recent example sprayed-painted on Interstate 95 pillars near the state’s Saugatuck River boat launch.
Such incidents are taken seriously and investigated by police, when they are reported, Capt. David Wolf, professional standards commander for the Police Department, told the TEAM meeting.
However, he noted, graffiti vandalism is challenging to investigate since there usually is little evidence to scrutinize.


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