Arizona: Chemical attack was hate crime against NW side couple, official says
— Arizona Dail Star reports:
— “Chemicals left near a home on the northwest side that created a noxious cloud were part of a hate crime attack, a sheriff’s official said Sunday evening.”
— “The attack was racially motivated against a man and woman who live in the Casas del Oro Norte community in the 2800 block of West Magee Road, near North Shannon Road, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, a sheriff’s spokeswoman.”
— “The home’s front door and garage door had also been sealed shut from the outside with a spray foam sealer, she said. An incendiary device was also found near the garage door, she said.”
— “The situation started about 4:50 a.m. Sunday when homeowners reported they smelled an unusual odor. Deputies found several inches of an unspecified chemical liquid in a yard nearby. They also found what appears to be chlorine tablets covered in liquid in the yard.”
— “The chemicals produced a ‘flammable vapor’ that made a white cloud, which floated toward the southwest, mostly south toward Interstate 10, she said.”
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Arizona: Chemical attack was hate crime against NW side couple, official says
Arizona: Chemical attack was hate crime against NW side couple, official says
— Arizona Daily Star reports:
— “Chemicals left near a home on the northwest side that created a noxious cloud were part of a hate crime attack, a sheriff’s official said Sunday evening.”
— “The attack was racially motivated against a man and woman who live in the Casas del Oro Norte community in the 2800 block of West Magee Road, near North Shannon Road, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, a sheriff’s spokeswoman.”
— “The home’s front door and garage door had also been sealed shut from the outside with a spray foam sealer, she said. An incendiary device was also found near the garage door, she said.”
— “The situation started about 4:50 a.m. Sunday when homeowners reported they smelled an unusual odor. Deputies found several inches of an unspecified chemical liquid in a yard nearby. They also found what appears to be chlorine tablets covered in liquid in the yard.”
— “The chemicals produced a ‘flammable vapor’ that made a white cloud, which floated toward the southwest, mostly south toward Interstate 10, she said.”
Idaho: Aryan Nations gone, but stain remains in Idaho
Idaho: Aryan Nations gone, but stain remains in Idaho
— AP reports in Idaho Stateman:
— “The house where Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler lived has been demolished. So has the church where he preached his racist religion. Cows graze where hundreds of white supremacists used to burn crosses in the summer.”
— “The Aryan Nations is long gone from northern Idaho, but its reputation lingers to the chagrin of locals.”
— “When a man recently shot up the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., much was made of the fact that accused shooter James von Brunn spent a few days in 2004 in this area, living with a fellow anti-Semite before he was evicted for being too radical.”
— “It’s not unusual to see people sporting Confederate flags, anti-government slogans or even a swastika tattoo.”
— “Many of the newcomers hail from California, including a large cadre of retired law enforcement officers, of whom O.J. Simpson trial figure Mark Fuhrman is the best known.”
High Court to Get James Ford Seale Case – reputed Ku Klux Klan
High Court to Get James Ford Seale Case – reputed Ku Klux Klan
— “The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Supreme Court should decide whether the statutes of limitations had expired on the kidnapping of two black teens in Mississippi in 1964. Reputed Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale is serving three life terms in those cases.”
— “Seale’s defense attorneys argued that a federal law change set the statute of limitations on kidnapping at five years.”
Kentucky: Ku Klux Klan hate fliers found in northwest Bullitt
(U.S.) Kentucky: KKK fliers found in northwest Bullitt
— “The fliers, which say they are from the United Northern & Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, were found on Raymond, West Blue Lick and Chillicoop roads, he said.”
— “The papers listed ’10 Steps to a Better America,’ which included stopping immigration, ending white discrimination, stopping foreign aid and defending gun rights.”
— “A request for comment submitted through the United Northern & Southern Knights’ Web site was not returned.”
Decision to Drop Suit Against Black Panthers in Poll Intimidation Approved by Associate AG
— Report states Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli “approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party of intimidating voters in Philadelphia during November’s election, according to interviews”
— SPLC lists Black Panthers as “black separatist” “hate group”
Georgia: Klan letter warns mother
Georgia: Klan letter warns mother
— “A Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent said Monday a Bainbridge mother whose son plays in an AAU basketball program here should turn over to local law enforcement agents a letter sent to her on apparent Ku Klux Klan stationery.”
— “GBI Agent-in-Charge Mike Lewis said that while the letter’s text may not have been overtly threatening, the Klan markings are enough to warrant law enforcement attention”
Florida: Police Investigate Ormond ‘KKK’ Cross Burning — Ku Klux Klan
Florida: Police Investigate Ormond ‘KKK’ Cross Burning
— “Ormond Beach police are investigating a cross burning Friday.”
— “The remnants of the cross were found by city workers. They said a cross was made from lumber and was standing upright in a pile of dirt and clay at the water tower on Leeway Trail by Airport Road.”
— “The letters “KKK” were scrawled across the cross and in the dirt, according to the workers. The wood was partially burned.”
Minnesota – Report: “Old South Slavery Defender to Speak at Conference”
— SPLC report on “extremist preacher Doug Wilson” to speak in Minnesota
— SPLC: “Wilson runs an extreme right religious empire in Moscow, Idaho, that includes a church, Canon Press, and New Saint Andrews College. Popular in neo-Confederate circles as well, he co-wrote a partly plagiarized booklet, Southern Slavery, As It Was, defending Old South slavery; his co-author was Steve Wilkins, a founding member of the neo-secessionist and racist League of the South.”
— SPLC: “Southern Slavery, As It Was is a repulsive apologia for the enslavement of black Americans. Among other things, the booklet contends that, “Slavery as it existed in the South … was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence. … There has never been a multiracial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.'”
Iowa: White Supremacist Neo-Nazis Sentenced in Racial Crimes Attack
— AP reports: Iowa: 2 sentenced in Eastern Iowa hate crimes case
— “Two people have been sentenced in a federal hate crimes case involving attacks on black patrons at an eastern Iowa bar.”
— “During a hearing last week, a judge sentenced Jeffrey Lee to nearly four years in prison and Wendie Groen to nearly three years.”
— “Prosecutors argued that Lee and Groen, and two other defendants, all from Kansas, violated the civil rights of the victims during December 2007 assaults at the Econolodge hotel in Muscatine. They were accused of shouting racial slurs as well as making references about the white supremacist group Aryan Nation during the attacks.”