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In yet another example of how the likely-mentally-ill homeless degrade everything, James Ryan, 39, stands charged with hate crimes for a swastika-scrawling spree in Lower Manhattan.

Starting Dec. 3, the homeless man tagged Wall Street’s Charging Bull, a pillar just outside City Hall and a construction-site wall near Liberty Place, the NYPD said. He faces five counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime and four counts of aggravated harassment.

Hate graffiti is less horrifying than pushing an innocent in front of a subway train but still a fearsome desecration of public places. And still the fruit of Mayor Bill de Blasio and homeless czar Steven Banks’ feckless infinite-tolerance approach to homelessness.

Count it as one more drastic shift the next mayor must make.

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