A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors' home are investigated by FBI

[whitehall]

The couple should know better. The FBI might not take much seriously outside of mom and pop Jan 6 misdemeanors but a burning Cross is enough to empty the local FBI headquarters.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set a cross on fire in their yard last month facing toward their Black neighbors' home.

Federal civil rights investigators searched the white couple's home in Conway on Wednesday, according to FBI spokesperson Kevin Wheeler. The retired Black couple also recorded video of the cross being burned on Thanksgiving weekend and described days of repeated threats from their neighbors. The next week, Worden Evander Butler, 28, and Alexis Paige Hartnett, 27, were arrested on state charges of harassment and later released on bond.

The cross wasn’t on fire by the time local police officers arrived, but was still “facing and in full view of the victims’ home,” according to a Horry County Police Department report. Shawn and Monica Williams, the Black neighbors, told WMBF-TV that the burning cross was about 8 feet (2.4 meters) from their fence. They said they're reconsidering their decision to move to the neighborhood two years ago in light of this experience.

“So now, what are we to do? Still live next to a cross-burning racist who’s threatened to cause us bodily harm?” Monica Williams told the Myrtle Beach-area broadcaster.

One of the white defendants was heard on police body camera footage repeatedly using a racial slur toward the Black couple, according to the police report. Butler also shared the Black couple’s address on Facebook, and posted that he was “summoning the devil’s army” and “about to make them pay,” the report said. According to an arrest warrant, Hartnett also threatened to hurt the couple.

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So how should this black couple deal with this?

Will the Law take care of this racist couple.

No idea. All I know is how I would handle it. The law should take care of this racist couple.

 

[Lord Long Rod]

I think we all ought to burn crosses in our front yard this Christmas to demonstrate the strength of the First Amendment and our burning passion for Christ.

 

[IM2]

Agree. Race hustlers keep racism alive. It's a business.

Trump is a race hustler.

 

[IM2]

Let's stop comparing protests done over a stolen election to riots caused by media lies about a cop killing some black felon who pointed a gun at his pregnant girlfriends stomach that the media made out to be some saint deserved of a golden casket.

There was no stolen election, nor was Floyd a black felon who pointed a gun at his pregnant girlfriends stomach.

In 2007, Floyd was involved with a group of other men in an aggravated robbery, in which he was identified as a suspect that held a gun to a woman’s abdomen. However, court records do not show that she was pregnant at the time, and that another suspect injured the woman, not Floyd.

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So stop supporting a thug who has defrauded millions of American citizens for president.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I think we all ought to burn crosses in our front yard this Christmas to demonstrate the strength of the First Amendment and our burning passion for Christ.

That's a good idea Lord Long Rod, see how good that argument serves you in court.

 

[Zincwarrior]

That's a good idea Lord Long Rod, see how good that argument serves you in court.

Wouldn't be his first cross burning. . .

 

[IM2]

I think we all ought to burn crosses in our front yard this Christmas to demonstrate the strength of the First Amendment and our burning passion for Christ.

I'm sure that's why you want to doo that.

 

[LeftofLeft]

The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set a cross on fire in their yard last month facing toward their Black neighbors' home.

Federal civil rights investigators searched the white couple's home in Conway on Wednesday, according to FBI spokesperson Kevin Wheeler. The retired Black couple also recorded video of the cross being burned on Thanksgiving weekend and described days of repeated threats from their neighbors. The next week, Worden Evander Butler, 28, and Alexis Paige Hartnett, 27, were arrested on state charges of harassment and later released on bond.

The cross wasn’t on fire by the time local police officers arrived, but was still “facing and in full view of the victims’ home,” according to a Horry County Police Department report. Shawn and Monica Williams, the Black neighbors, told WMBF-TV that the burning cross was about 8 feet (2.4 meters) from their fence. They said they're reconsidering their decision to move to the neighborhood two years ago in light of this experience.

“So now, what are we to do? Still live next to a cross-burning racist who’s threatened to cause us bodily harm?” Monica Williams told the Myrtle Beach-area broadcaster.

One of the white defendants was heard on police body camera footage repeatedly using a racial slur toward the Black couple, according to the police report. Butler also shared the Black couple’s address on Facebook, and posted that he was “summoning the devil’s army” and “about to make them pay,” the report said. According to an arrest warrant, Hartnett also threatened to hurt the couple.

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So how should this black couple deal with this?

Will the Law take care of this racist couple.

Whites lite up a cross on their own yard and Blacks lose their shit. Why then would Blacks light white people on fire?

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[Delldude]

Did you pull that from ABC or the Daily Beast?

Facebook....so, like I said....back up your claim.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Facebook....so, like I said....back up your claim.

What claim would that be?

 

[Delldude]

What claim would that be?

Duh.....

The white folks burning the cross are conservative Trump Humpers.

 

[Coyote]

That’s too bad. Had they put up a homemade gas chamber on their yard, the FBI would look the other way.

That’s a lie…or maybe it’s just the never ending rhetoric of your echo chamber. They’ve investigated and are investigating numerous anti-semitic threats, as they should. Do you have a problem if they also investigate threats against Blacks?

Just a few examples in recent news.

Student charged with making antisemitic threats to Cornell's Jewish students

The FBI said it's aware of antisemitic threats posted online targeting Jewish students at Cornell University.

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Hundreds of U.S. synagogues targeted by false bomb threats

The FBI has launched a nationwide investigation.

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