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Teens try to burn cross on man's lawn Sara Leaming Staff writer Several teenagers were caught by an Elk, Wash., resident Sunday while trying to burn a cross in his front yard, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said. The man heard a noise outside his home Sunday morning in the 39000 block of North Hardesty Road and looked outside to see a cross on his front lawn, said sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Dave Reagan. The man ran outside and saw three teenagers riding away from his home on bicycles, and two more teenagers approaching, Reagan said. The resident stopped the two...
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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. They said they immediately called the Suffolk County police, but by the time officers arrived, rain had doused the fire. The police removed the cross, which was three feet tall and made from the slats of a picket fence. By yesterday afternoon, the only remaining trace was a charred circle of grass outside the building, a two-family house in the southwest corner of...
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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.
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Couple Finds Crosses Burning Outside Trenton Home Detectives Await Return Of Evidence From Crime Lab TRENTON, Mich. -- A biracial couple that moved to a Trenton neighborhood two weeks ago received a harsh welcome this weekend, Local 4 reported. The man who lives at the home with his wife and 1-year-old daughter told the station that the family woke to find a cross burning outside their daughter's window two days in a row. "I thought it was a dream," he said. "I just actually couldn't believe that people would do something like that." Police caught two men leaving the area...
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A St. Johns County man pleaded guilty to burning a cross in his own front yard in an effort to intimidate a black family that was considering buying a house in his Hastings neighborhood, according to WJXT-TV. Neal Chapman Coombs, 50, admitted to setting fire to a cross in January while a family was negotiating to purchase the house across the street. According to the plea agreement, when the black family came to inspect the house, he made a derogatory remark to one of the children, then poured something flammable on a cross and set it on...
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CONROE, Texas -- A man was awarded a million dollar settlement after his co-worker put a noose around his neck and choked him in the company bathroom, officials told KPRC-TV in Houston on Tuesday. Charles Hickman worked at CCSI, Commercial Coating Services Inc., near Conroe in Montgomery County in 2002. He sued his former employer for racial discrimination and harassment after verbal harassment turned into physical abuse in one of the company's restrooms. Hickman said the harassment culminated in October 2002 when a white colleague placed a noose around his neck in a bathroom and began choking him while co-workers...
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- James Jackson, a 26-year-old black employee of 180 Connect, was preparing for another day of installing cable, telephone and Internet service to residential customers of Cablevision in Nassau County, New York on December 7. When he walked to the fenced-off area to pick up equipment for the day's jobs he looked up and was shocked to see a vicious, racist symbol in his workplace. A noose was hanging in the fenced-off equipment area, visible to the dozens of installers, the majority of whom are black, but accessible only to his boss and an equipment manager, both...
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