Colorado man charged with hate crime for defacing Charging Bull statue with swastika

James Ryan, a man from Colorado, has been indicted on hate crime charges for drawing swastikas and writing racial slurs in public spaces around New York City, including on the Charging Bull statue. He is accused of drawing a swastika on the gates to City Hall and an anti-Black slur on a pillar, spray-painting a large swastika and writing another anti-Black slur outside a CVS Pharmacy, and painting the same symbol on the Charging Bull statue. Ryan was charged with three counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime and three counts of aggravated harassment.