Vandals leave racist graffiti on property of BGSU coach Orr
The property of Bowling Green State University basketball coach recently was defaced with racist graffiti, multiple media outlets reported.
The graffiti, written in chalk on a driveway, included a swastika and the words "white power."
Orr, who has coached in Bowling Green for six years, is an African American.
"The community has made us feel welcome and comfortable here," Orr said, according to the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune. "I've lived a lot of places in my life, and this has been a good place to live as a father and a husband.
"This one incident by no means represents our experience here or by no means is an indictment to the entire community. Something like this could happen anywhere in America."
Orr said the incident was unlikely to be "basketball-related."
"I just think it (was because) I was black and they know I lived there," he said.
Police were soliciting leads in an attempt to find the vandal or vandals.
"I'm considering it to be an act of graffiti and vandalism," Bowling Green Police Lt. Brad Biller said, according to the Toledo Blade. "I don't consider this a widespread problem in our community."
