Klan Official Calls for Prosecution of Attackers of Crosses
A Ku Klux Klan official said Monday that he wants everyone charged with toppling or damaging wooden crosses that the group erected on a downtown public square to be prosecuted.
“I want them all prosecuted eventually for criminal damaging and civil rights charges,” said Ron Lee, vice president of the U.S. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in nearby Hamilton, Ohio.
Protesters on Monday knocked down the third cross the klan has erected since Dec. 21. Three people were charged with disorderly conduct and released.
The cross was put back up later in the day.
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