From an ABC News article titled "Swastikas, 'KKK' Written on Deaf Student"

A group of students at a Washington [D.C.] high school for the deaf scrawled "KKK" and swastikas on a black student's body with a marker while holding him against his will, police said Wednesday.

District of Columbia police are investigating the Saturday night attack as a possible hate crime, Chief Cathy Lanier said…

 
Wait, hate crime? What on Earth would give them that idea??