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A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors’ home....
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:54 pm
Are investigated by FBI
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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.
Cross burnings in the U.S. are “symbols of hate” that are “inextricably intertwined with the history of the Ku Klux Klan,” according to a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision written by the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The justices ruled that the First Amendment allows bans on cross burnings only when they are intended to intimidate because the action “is a particularly virulent form of intimidation.”
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.
The Associated Press did not immediately receive responses to messages seeking comment Wednesday from a publicly available email address for Butler and a Facebook account for Hartnett. AP also called several phone numbers listed for Butler and Hartnett and received no response.
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.
South Carolina is one of two states in the country that does not impose additional penalties for hate crimes committed because of a victim’s race or other aspects of their identity. Monica Williams told the AP on Wednesday she hopes the episode highlights the need for hate crimes laws. In the meantime, she and her husband will “patiently wait for justice to be served.”
The laws are needed to protect everyone against any form of hate,” she said.
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Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:56 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Listen I've already apologized
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:56 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
cant do shite anymore
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:57 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Her Facebook is a perfect example of meth usage and white trash - https://www.facebook.com/thetruthisinyourheart
What does that couple do at this point? Going to be awkward checking the mail from now on.
The cross in question:
The black couple:
What does that couple do at this point? Going to be awkward checking the mail from now on.
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Hartnett and Butler live in a run-down bungalow (pictured) on Corbett Drive, according to the police report about their shocking alleged hate crimes
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Hartnett (pictured) who works as a crystal healer according to her social media profiles, is accused of 'using racial slurs, threatening bodily harm and referencing having killed a black woman in the past' on Thanksgiving this year, according to her arrest warrant
The cross in question:
The black couple:
This post was edited on 12/21/23 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:58 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Christians are insane
Posted on 12/21/23 at 2:58 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Can’t burn a cross on your own property any more? What has this country come to
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:02 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
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South Carolina is one of two states in the country that does not impose additional penalties for hate crimes committed because of a victim’s race
Trash state does trashy things. No surprise that state offices also take off for Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina. I wonder which the 2nd state is. Looks like it might be Arkansas?
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:17 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
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Hartnett (pictured) who works as a crystal healer
more like a crystal dealer - amirite
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:22 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
If the neighbors were summoning the Devil’s Army they have bigger problems than just their racism. But the racism is what makes it national news.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:23 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
They HAD to burn the cross. The black couple moved in and raised everybody on the street's property values 15%, except the cross burners.
The cross burners values would have been raised as well, but they are actively rednecking their home up to old-school Livingston parish trailer standards.
The cross burners values would have been raised as well, but they are actively rednecking their home up to old-school Livingston parish trailer standards.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 3:34 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Lowest form of life is white trash.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:00 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
quote:pretty sure this couple post on the Poli Board
Posted on 12/21/23 at 4:56 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
This definitely happened
Posted on 12/21/23 at 5:00 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Just don't be a shitty person. That's all you have to do.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 5:14 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
I don't agree with what they did, but I agree with their right to express themselves, no matter how repulsive they are. But...
You have to look at the totality of the situation, and having done that, they are criminals who committed a crime.
For me this is about good, decent people vs terrible humans. Skin color doesn't matter & I have more in common with the black couple.
You have to look at the totality of the situation, and having done that, they are criminals who committed a crime.
For me this is about good, decent people vs terrible humans. Skin color doesn't matter & I have more in common with the black couple.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 6:20 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Interesting. If you can burn the American flag under free speech, why can’t you burn a cross under free speech?
Posted on 12/21/23 at 6:26 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
So this is a hate crime, but some worthless dindu shooting 30 rounds into a car with an 8 year old child in it because someone else "threatened his girlfriend" isn't.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 6:37 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Are some people not even reading the article? People blasted their home address online and threatened them with what you could say is a death threat.
Black dude just looks like a chill old man. Should just go over there and old man strength that little a-hole into the ground
Black dude just looks like a chill old man. Should just go over there and old man strength that little a-hole into the ground
Posted on 12/21/23 at 7:10 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Now do black hate crimes against white people.
Posted on 12/21/23 at 7:12 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
HOA needs to write a sternly worded letter
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