Markreich
15-07-2006, 18:10
STRATFORD — The FBI and State Police are being called in to assist local authorities in case violence erupts between white supremacists and black activists at today's anti-racism rally in front of Town Hall.
Tighter security for the rally comes on the heels of the discovery Friday by a U.S. Postal Service worker of $1 bills defaced with swastikas and racial slurs scattered in the largely minority section of the town's South End.
As authorities brace for a potential showdown, Mayor James R. Miron said "extraordinary security measures" are being put in place to ensure public safety at the noon rally.
In the meantime, authorities were investigating who distributed more than a dozen $1 bills found by a postal worker delivering mail in the South End.
The bills are defaced with Nazi swastikas next to the image of George Washington, with "Kill Niggers" scrawled across the bottom. The backs of the bills are marked "Niggers Suck," and signed "White Wolves."
The White Wolves are a self-proclaimed supremacist group launched in Stratford several years ago. It is one of three groups that have warned this week in e-mails and leaflets that they will attend the rally.
FBI spokesman Ron Barndollar said Friday the federal agency is aware the dollar bills were distributed and that Stratford police are in possession of evidence.
"We are deeply concerned, and both the FBI and Stratford police are taking this very seriously," Barndollar said, adding it is a federal crime to deface U.S. currency.
Miron called the dollar bills marked with racial slurs "an obscene, cowardly act."
"Obviously, it's a horrible, reprehensible act spread by people trying to send their message of hate and defacing U.S. currency in the process," the mayor said. "Our Police Department is investigating and I have been briefed by the FBI."
One of the dollar bills was found in front of Caribbean Delights at 17 Woodend Road, a restaurant owned by Marcia Mitchell-Davis, who is black. She is the mother of 15-year-old Titasheen Mitchell, who alleges she was the victim of police brutality while being arrested during a March 21 brawl outside the eatery.
http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4056199
...insanity. Right now my home town has 8 different news stations, the Klan, the NAACP, and every shithead political wannabe trying to mug for the cameras.
So, we have hate groups from both sides of the aisles trying to blow up an interferance of police business case. Lovely.
Whelp, the center of town is closed down... I think I'll go fishing.
Tighter security for the rally comes on the heels of the discovery Friday by a U.S. Postal Service worker of $1 bills defaced with swastikas and racial slurs scattered in the largely minority section of the town's South End.
As authorities brace for a potential showdown, Mayor James R. Miron said "extraordinary security measures" are being put in place to ensure public safety at the noon rally.
In the meantime, authorities were investigating who distributed more than a dozen $1 bills found by a postal worker delivering mail in the South End.
The bills are defaced with Nazi swastikas next to the image of George Washington, with "Kill Niggers" scrawled across the bottom. The backs of the bills are marked "Niggers Suck," and signed "White Wolves."
The White Wolves are a self-proclaimed supremacist group launched in Stratford several years ago. It is one of three groups that have warned this week in e-mails and leaflets that they will attend the rally.
FBI spokesman Ron Barndollar said Friday the federal agency is aware the dollar bills were distributed and that Stratford police are in possession of evidence.
"We are deeply concerned, and both the FBI and Stratford police are taking this very seriously," Barndollar said, adding it is a federal crime to deface U.S. currency.
Miron called the dollar bills marked with racial slurs "an obscene, cowardly act."
"Obviously, it's a horrible, reprehensible act spread by people trying to send their message of hate and defacing U.S. currency in the process," the mayor said. "Our Police Department is investigating and I have been briefed by the FBI."
One of the dollar bills was found in front of Caribbean Delights at 17 Woodend Road, a restaurant owned by Marcia Mitchell-Davis, who is black. She is the mother of 15-year-old Titasheen Mitchell, who alleges she was the victim of police brutality while being arrested during a March 21 brawl outside the eatery.
http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4056199
...insanity. Right now my home town has 8 different news stations, the Klan, the NAACP, and every shithead political wannabe trying to mug for the cameras.
So, we have hate groups from both sides of the aisles trying to blow up an interferance of police business case. Lovely.
Whelp, the center of town is closed down... I think I'll go fishing.