Subway goers walk on the platform in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 31, 2016. REUTERS/Elizabeth Shafiroff
NEW YORK: The tale of the strangers aboard a New York subway car who teamed up this weekend to scrub away neo-Nazi graffiti went viral on Feb 5, in an incident that highlighted a recent rise in hate and bias crimes reported around the US.
Passengers said on social media that when they boarded a subway car on the night of Feb 4 they found someone had drawn messages in black marker targeting Jews and Muslims and praising Adolf Hitler, the German leader responsible for the Holocaust.
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