Novato, CA – Police in Novato are investigating a hate incident after someone left antisemitic flyers in the driveways of homes in the southern area of town, authorities said.
On Monday at around 9:30 a.m., police began receiving reports from the community regarding the flyers in plastic sandwich bags being left outside homes in both the south end of the city near Ignacio Boulevard and in unincorporated areas of Novato along Bel Marin Keys Boulevard.
Responding officers investigated and found that the flyers contained antisemitic hate speech. While they were not determined to be a violation of the law, the distribution of the flyers is being classified as what police called “a hate-motivated incident.”