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  • 3 facing federal charges of allegations of staging hate crime hoax during 2023 Colorado Springs mayoral race

    11/14/2024 11:13:36 AM PST · by george76 · 10 replies
    KKTV ^ | Nov. 13, 2024 | Lindsey Grewe
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Three people are now facing federal charges for allegedly staging a hate crime during the Colorado Springs mayoral race in 2023. In the early morning hours of April 23, 2023, a burning cross in front a campaign sign for then-candidate Yemi Mobolade was found at the intersection of Union and Fillmore. The sign had been defaced with a racial slur. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado (USAOC) now says the entire scene was a hoax, intended to make citizens think that there was a group of racists in Colorado Springs strongly opposed to...
  • Burning cross outside Burnet County church spurs investigation (TX)

    03/03/2015 3:26:52 PM PST · by bgill · 22 replies
    kxan ^ | March 3, 2015 | Erin Cargile
    Sheriff’s officials say when deputies got to the church, they found a charred wooden cross propped up against the church’s sign near the road. Investigators have collected evidence from the scene for submission and analysis. The predominantly black congregation, 200 members strong, has called Burnet home for nearly ten years. They meet out in the country on FM 2342 northeast of Kingsland. Pastor Willie L Monnet, Sr. founded the church in New Orleans, and was forced to relocate after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
  • Rep. Grayson blasted over anti-Tea Party email showing burning cross

    10/23/2013 4:39:37 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 32 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/23/13 | The Five staff
    <p>Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, who is known for lobbing over-the-top rhetorical bombs at his political foes, once again is being accused of taking things too far -- after his campaign sent an email that compared the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan while depicting a burning cross. The email showed a large image of the flaming cross, with the letters "ea Party" etched in to the right of it. The caption read: "Now You Know What the 'T' Stands For." The email included "pointed analysis" from Grayson in which he said, "The Tea Party is no more popular than the Klan," blasting the conservative organization for its role in the showdown that resulted in the two-week partial government shutdown.</p>
  • http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dem-rep-uses-burning-cross-spell-tea-party_764510.html

    10/23/2013 8:44:05 AM PDT · by Oldpuppymax · 2 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 10/23/13 | Michael D. Shaw
    Notoriously, the rates presented on the Obamacare site are artificially low. Click on Coach is Right link for sites which publish the TRUE ObamaCare rates before the Regime removes these links from the web.
  • Cobb Co. family finds burning cross, deer meat on lawn

    05/01/2013 5:17:43 AM PDT · by Pan_Yan · 19 replies
    WSB TV ^ | 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, 2013
    WOODSTOCK, Ga. — A Cobb County family says they’re having a hard time sleeping after someone left a burning cross and bloody deer meat on their front lawn. ... Sunday night around midnight, Louis and his brothers were at their home when they noticed something glowing outside. They were shocked by what they found outside. “We just see a flaming cross right there on the ground and we’re just shocked, like, what?” Louis said. Louis said he was primarily concerned about the safety of his brother’s four children and his pregnant girlfriend inside the home.
  • Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on L.I.

    11/21/2004 10:38:49 PM PST · by CAWats · 43 replies · 1,800+ views
    New York Times ^ | 11/21/2004 | CAWats
    What? In Liberal, tolerant, inclusive, diversity-loving New York? I'd expect this in, say, Crawford, Texas. Awakened by a loud bang and the ring of their doorbell, an interracial couple peered out the front window of their Long Island home at 3 a.m. yesterday and saw a cross burning on the front lawn.