Miami murals honoring baseball trailblazers Jackie Robinson and Minnie Minoso were defaced with swastikas and racist slurs this week.

The vandalism in the city’s Overtown neighborhood was reported Monday to police, who told The Athletic on Friday that they are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

The defacements of the murals in Dorsey Park included swastikas painted over the players’ faces and a racial slur scrawled on Robinson’s image.

“This was an act of hate, but it will not define us,” Kyle Holbrook, the artist who painted the mural in 2011 as part of the MLK Mural Project, told the Miami Herald. “This mural was born from a community’s pride, history, and power. We will restore it — stronger, bolder, and with even more purpose. Black history is American history. And no spray

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