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Let’s hope feces flinging is not becoming a trend.

Toronto Police are investigation two separate reports of someone dumping urine and fecal matter at university libraries: One Friday afternoon at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Research Library on St. George St., and a similar crime on Sunday afternoon at Scott Library, on Keele St. at York University.

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In both instances, the perpetrator was male.

Police spokesman Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook was unable to confirm any of the details currently being shared on online forums — where student eyewitnesses claim that, in both cases, the person attacked was Asian. There is already speculation that these horrific attacks were some sort of hate crime.

Douglas Cook could confirmed Monday that the two incidents are thought to be connected.

“We do believe the incidents are connected in one way or another,” she said. “We just need a bit more clarity and a few more details to confirm that. There are a lot of similarities between the two incidents, but we have to gather more information.”