BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) - Police are investigating after some letters on a sign outside the Beaumont Independent School District administration building were rearranged allegedly to spell a racial slur.
Beaumont ISD Police Chief Clydell Duncan says the incident borders on a hate crime and the FBI will be contacted.
The spelling change was discovered Wednesday on a sign that says normally says "recognized," the district's Texas Education Agency rating.
Several letters were changed, to begin a word with the letter "n."
District spokeswoman Jessie Haynes says whoever did it had tried to spell a racial slur.
Security videotape shows a truck circling the block, people getting out of the vehicle and some letters being rearranged.
Nobody has been arrested.
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