Two Syracuse University students are facing hate crime charges after allegedly tossing a bag of pork into a Jewish frat house during a Rosh Hashanah celebration.

The incident occurred around 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Zeta Beta Tau house, where the fraternity brothers had gathered for the Jewish New Year.

Zeta Beta Tau is a historically Jewish fraternity. Jewish dietary law prohibits the consumption or touching of pork.

One of the suspects, Samuel Patten, is accused of entering the house and throwing a clear plastic bag of meat, splattering the contents on a wall and the floor.

He then fled the house and got into a Jeep Wrangler driven by another man, Kyle Anderson, police said. They were captured soon after and charged with burglary as a hate crime and criminal nuisance.

Both suspects

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