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Deputies to Educate Calabasas High Students on Hate and Intolerance

Members of the Stop Hate and Respect Everyone program will screen a film about hate crimes and lead discussions with students.

Editor's Note: The Stop Hate and Respect Everyone program plans on returning to Calabasas High next week, said Lt. Steven Smith of the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies will spend the next several days educating students on the dangers of hate and intolerance, following the discovery of at the campus on Saturday.

The deputies are a part of the Stop Hate and Respect Everyone (SHARE) program and will operate out of a trailer at the school for the remainder of the week, according to a press release from the sheriff's department.

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Uniformed law enforcers will screen a documentary film about hate crimes to groups of up to 24 people, followed by a 60- to 90-minute discussion about combating intolerance, the release read.

Investigators are still on campus interviewing students for possible leads regarding to this past weekend's felony hate crime involving tagging of anti-Semitic phrases and swastikas on school property, deputies said.

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No suspects have been identified yet.


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