Cross burned on lawn of Obama supporters in NJ

[Doityourself]

By SAMANTHA HENRY
Associated Press Writer
Published: Thursday, November 06, 2008


NEWARK, N.J. A family who had supported Barack Obama's presidential campaign emerged from their home in the northwestern New Jersey town of Hardwick Thursday morning to find the charred remnants of a 6-foot wooden cross on their front lawn.
Pieces of a homemade bedsheet banner reading "President Obama - Victory '08," which had been stolen from the yard the night before, also were found, leading investigators to believe the banner had been wrapped around the cross before it was set afire.

Lt. Gerald Lewis of the New Jersey State Police said his agency is treating the incident as a bias crime.

Police believe the cross, made of two-by-fours bolted to a metal pole like those used to support road signs, was placed on the lawn sometime between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m., and fell over after being set on fire.

Homeowner Gary Grewal said he had noticed the Obama banner missing from his lawn the night before and reported it to police.

Grewal said his 8-year-old daughter, Arianna, spotted the banner wrapped around the burnt cross as they walked toward their car to drive to school.
"She saw it, that's what bothered me the most," Grewal said Thursday. "You can imagine the types of questions she was asking. It was very tough to explain."

Grewal, 51, a management consultant who emigrated from India, has lived in Hardwick Township, a largely rural community of about 1,500 people in Warren County, about 40 miles northwest of Newark, since 2001.

More here:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/190/story/308458.html

[BlueManDude]

1. Odd, Newark is not exactly Klan territory.

[Jersey Devil]

3. Hardwick isn't anywhere near Newark

It is a tiny town in Warren County in NW NJ (close to Greenwood Lake) near the Delaware River and the border of PA. It is farm country and home turf to ultra wingnut congressman Scott Garrett. NJ has many ultra red areas though people think of it as a totally blue state. Fortunately these areas are not heavily populated.

[Beacool]

10. Yeah, at first I thought that they meant Newark and I was shocked.

Newark has a huge AA population. I never heard of the town mentioned in the article.

[zulchzulu]

2. Whoever did that is a coward

Sad story...

[zbdent]

5. comparison ... McCain supporter shoots a guy who (allegedly) was going to

vandalize a McCain sign - in broad daylight ...

Eagle Scout uses the cover of darkness to steal 140 Obama signs in Bath/Richfield Ohio area ... leftie uses video camera to capture the evidence ... not judging it a crime worth a possible death penalty ...

[zbdent]

4. "Come on, that doesn't make them terrorists ..."

[QueenOfCalifornia]

6. Where did that

quote come from?

[zbdent]

9. sorry, should have added that it was made up by me

but I can see someone from the right saying such a sentiment ...

[LoKnLoD]

7. Same thing happened here in Utah..except they burned a flag

In my town in Utah a African American family hung a flag on their front porch after Obama won and it was set on fire.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

8. How

patriotic! :crazy:

[ratherunique]

11. wow i'm not surprised

good thing i bought a surveillance camera for my house.