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Home vandalism stirs alarm in Jackson, TN; incident viewed as ‘hate crime’Racial epithets amid high dollar vandalism alarms citizens, but not police
Harrel Carter, president of the Jackson-Madison County NAACP Branch issued a press statement denouncing the hate crime. He based the characterization on the presence of racial epithets found in the home on Dorothy Cove. Carter held a press conference in the lobby of the Jackson Police Department, 234 Institute St. Carter said that the local branch “denounces the racial epithets” found last Tuesday in a Dorothy Cove home once rented to a black family. Jackson Police Capt. Gerry Campbell said that JPD is still investigating the vandalism as a property crime. “We are investigating it as an aggravated vandalism,” he said. “We are reaching out to people in the community to see if anyone has any information on what happened.” Campbell added, “We think it is someone in the neighborhood (who did this), a juvenile, but we are not certain.”
Joe Thompson, a Memphis real investor who had shown the Dorothy Cove home, said that the house was being leased to a white family from Atwood when the vandalism occurred.
[Information for this story obtained from NAACP newsletter, USDOJ: <www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/overview.htm> and the FBI: <www.fbi.gov/hq/cd/civilrights/overview.htm>] SectionsNewsTopicsDiscrimination, hate crime, Jackson, Madison County, NAACP, TN |
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