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The Los Angeles Fire Department has posted four surveillance videos showing a Hollywood transient who broke into Temple Israel and apparently set a small fire in a second-floor classroom. (One of the videos is above.) Here's a report by the Jewish Journal. After the jump: Councilman Tom LaBonge labeling the attempted arson a hate crime.
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LaBonge calls temple break-in a 'hate crime'
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