A 19-year-old Edgewater Park man was charged yesterday with cutting a large racial slur into a grassy, public lot across the street from a biracial teenager, police said.
Dennis E. Westphal, of Green Street, faces 18 months in state prison if convicted of bias intimidation and harassment. He was also charged with disorderly conduct.
The word n- was cut into tall grass in 10-foot letters sometime during the night of Aug. 30 or the morning of Aug. 31.
It was discovered by Eric Schneider as he walked his dog. His family believed it was directed at his sister-in-law, 16-year-old Kendahl Jones, who is biracial and lives with him on Bridgeboro Road.
No noise was heard the night the grass was cut, so it was thought the culprit used a hand mower.
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