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If This Isn't a Hate Crime, What Is?

By Pete Kotz in unsolved
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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We're pretty sure these guys' message isn't all that ambiguous
​Over Labor Day weekend, David Newhoff and his wife Tni of drove from San Francisco to Moraga, California to visit David's parents. Husband, as it happens, is white. Wife is black. Normally that wouldn't matter, but in this case is kinda does.

They awoke Monday morning to find that someone in the area doesn't appreciate the mixing of races within the matrimonial insitution. That was made clear by the cross on the street in front of the home marked "KKK."

Moraga police are naturally investigating the incident as a hate crime. But the FBI, weirdly enough, is taking a more tentative approach. "It takes a lot of energy and a lot of close inspection to determine whether these things are actually hate crimes," Agent Joe Schadler told KTVU-TV. "There's always a fine line in these sort of situations, because a lot of constitutionally protected speech is really ugly. It's not a crime to be ignorant. It's not a crime to be racist and it's not a crime to speak about it publicly."

But is not a cross marked by the Klan a pretty clear sign of intimidation?

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