SKOKIE, Ill. - Police in suburban Skokie said an attack on a group of kids at a park earlier this month, in which they faced antisemitic language and one minor was hit by pellets from a toy gun, was a hate crime .

The attack took place on Oct. 7, around 6 p.m., at Shawnee Park in Skokie, where police responded to a report of a conflict involving two groups of youth, according to the Skokie Police Department.

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Police said the groups involved minors primarily between the ages of 13 and 15.

One of the groups reported that another group of kids used antisemitic language and chased them, and one discharged gel pellets from a "gel blaster" toy gun. The incident began at Shawnee Park and continued onto a nearby street, where one minor reported being hit in the leg by a gel

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