Interesting… looking at the images, my first thought was that this was a demonstration trying to comment that recent happenings at Harvard and other colleges are diminishing the legacy that the black professors there have created (or something to that effect).
So the juvenile act of putting (what appears to be) electrical tape on photos now classifies as a "gross hate crime"?
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That's pretty bad, and at Harvard no less. You'd expect better from a prestigious place like that.