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24th October 2015, 08:53 PM
tell us what they said
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20151015/NEWS/151019572
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Police are investigating anti-Semitic and racist leaflets tossed onto residential properties on a few streets in the Blackstone neighborhood Thursday morning.
The leaflets, in 22 plastic bags weighted by rice, had various messages attacking African Americans and Jews, and referenced the Ku Klux Klan.
Providence Public Safety Commissioner Steven M. Paré said that no group appeared to be taking responsibility for the leaflets, and it was unclear whether they were related to a similar incident earlier this year in East Greenwich.
The discovery of the leaflets drew a heavy presence of law enforcement and fire officials, as well as Mayor Jorge Elorza, the U.S. attorney's office and the state police fusion center. The fire department's hazardous materials team deployed to check whether the rice was a volatile substance -- it was not. The police are investigating whether there was any specific target for the leaflets.
Most of the bags landed on lawns on Methyl Street, and a few on Lorimer Avenue, Ogden Street and Overhill Road, in a predominantly white and well-off neighborhood. Paré said that as of Thursday afternoon, there didn't appear to be any particular homes or residents who were being targeted.
That's an important distinction in the investigation, to determine whether the offensive materials constitute a hate crime against a person or group, or whether the material falls under free speech. "We haven't looked at all of the papers," the commissioner said. "It's still early in the investigation."
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20151015/NEWS/151019572
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Police are investigating anti-Semitic and racist leaflets tossed onto residential properties on a few streets in the Blackstone neighborhood Thursday morning.
The leaflets, in 22 plastic bags weighted by rice, had various messages attacking African Americans and Jews, and referenced the Ku Klux Klan.
Providence Public Safety Commissioner Steven M. Paré said that no group appeared to be taking responsibility for the leaflets, and it was unclear whether they were related to a similar incident earlier this year in East Greenwich.
The discovery of the leaflets drew a heavy presence of law enforcement and fire officials, as well as Mayor Jorge Elorza, the U.S. attorney's office and the state police fusion center. The fire department's hazardous materials team deployed to check whether the rice was a volatile substance -- it was not. The police are investigating whether there was any specific target for the leaflets.
Most of the bags landed on lawns on Methyl Street, and a few on Lorimer Avenue, Ogden Street and Overhill Road, in a predominantly white and well-off neighborhood. Paré said that as of Thursday afternoon, there didn't appear to be any particular homes or residents who were being targeted.
That's an important distinction in the investigation, to determine whether the offensive materials constitute a hate crime against a person or group, or whether the material falls under free speech. "We haven't looked at all of the papers," the commissioner said. "It's still early in the investigation."