Is this the standard of tolerance to which the yahoos in the Red States should aspire?
Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on Long Island, NY
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 Lake Grove.
Detective Sgt. Robert Reecks said that the police and the F.B.I. were investigating the incident as a hate crime, but that there were no suspects.
It was the county's first cross-burning since 1998, when a black family in Amityville returned home from church and found a burning cross on their
lawn.
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