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New York (CNN)Gregory Locke was enjoying his Saturday night
after dinner with friends in Manhattan when he boarded the No. 1
subway train at 50th Street to head uptown.

Almost immediately, he knew something was up.

"Everybody was sitting there stunned," said Locke, a New York
attorney originally from Atlanta, Georgia. "It wasn't until the
doors closed behind me that I saw it on the windows of the
doors."

Someone had used a Sharpie to scrawl swastikas and hate-filled
graffiti all over the subway car: "Jews belong in the oven,"
"Destroy Islam," "Heil Hitler."

Chef Jared Nied scrubs graffiti from the subway car Saturday
night.

Passengers looked uncomfortable and unsure of what to do, Locke
said. But then a man stood up and said, "Hand sanitizer gets rid
of Sharpie pen. We need alcohol," Locke told CNN.

That man was Jared Nied, a chef at a Manhattan restaurant.

Another passenger helps to remove the graffiti from the train.

"The woman across the car saw me looking at the graffiti, asked
me if I could do something and offered a tissue. That's when it
clicked that sanitizer would work," Nied told CNN via text
message Sunday.

Then, "everyone started digging into their pockets and bags for
hand sanitizer and wipes," Locke said.

Nied and other passengers got to work on erasing the graffiti.
He told CNN they were "satisfied in just doing the right thing."

"It was very uplifting to see everyone come together like that,"
said Locke. The attorney posted an account of the incident on
Facebook and it quickly went viral.

As of midday Sunday Locke's post had been shared more than
250,000 times and was even noticed by former first daughter
Chelsea Clinton, who tweeted about it.

Don't be so pious Chelsea, your mommy's supporters are
responsible for it.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/05/us/subway-nazi-graffiti-new-york-
trnd/
 

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