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Cross-burning worry
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liburn1121,0,1088054,print.story
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Two interracial families in Lake Grove were rousted from their beds early
yesterday morning to find a burning cross on their lawn, Suffolk police said.

Someone rang the doorbell at the two-family home on Orienta Avenue about 3
a.m., evidence that the house had been deliberately targeted, said Det. Sgt.
Robert Reeks of the Bias Crime Bureau. The FBI is also investigating, he
said.

But on Long Island, cross-burnings are not just a bad memory from the
pre-civil rights era. In 1998, a black family from Amityville returned home
from church to find a cross burned on their lawn. Two years earlier, three
Setauket teenagers were found guilty of burning a cross on the property of a
former high school classmate whose family was Haitian-American. In 1992, a
black family in Medford returned home from a Saturday night football game to
find the remnants of a burned cross.

Feroj Ahmad, 41, who is originally from Bangladesh, said no one has bothered
him and his family since they moved to a two-family house on the street about
four years ago. Now, he said, he is scared, and concerned for his children.
"I want to know why it happened," Ahmad said.
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When we lived in southern Ohio in 1987 cross-burnings occured.

Dianne
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