Archangel
2009-03-03 23:09:41 UTC
Falls police say woman put up racist sign
03/03/09 06:48 AM
NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and
community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works
garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were
called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to
investigate another racially charged sign.
This one was clearly no joke.
No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take
down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent
three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”
The 53-year-old woman told police she put up the sign after someone
tried to break into her house and added, “I can do what I want. I live
in America,” according to a police report.
Police said they received complaints and she must take the sign down. An
officer at the scene said the woman agreed to take down the sign under
protest. The officer said the woman already had seven more signs she was
planning to hang up.
Change you can believe in.
Archangel.
03/03/09 06:48 AM
NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and
community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works
garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were
called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to
investigate another racially charged sign.
This one was clearly no joke.
No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take
down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent
three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”
The 53-year-old woman told police she put up the sign after someone
tried to break into her house and added, “I can do what I want. I live
in America,” according to a police report.
Police said they received complaints and she must take the sign down. An
officer at the scene said the woman agreed to take down the sign under
protest. The officer said the woman already had seven more signs she was
planning to hang up.
Change you can believe in.
Archangel.
03/03/09 06:48 AM
NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and
community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works
garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were
called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to
investigate another racially charged sign.
This one was clearly no joke.
No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take
down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent
three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”
The 53-year-old woman told police she put up the sign after someone
tried to break into her house and added, “I can do what I want. I live
in America,” according to a police report.
Police said they received complaints and she must take the sign down. An
officer at the scene said the woman agreed to take down the sign under
protest. The officer said the woman already had seven more signs she was
planning to hang up.
Change you can believe in.
Archangel.
03/03/09 06:48 AM
NIAGARA FALLS—Two days after a man was sentenced to probation and
community service for putting up a sign as a “joke” in a public works
garage that said “whites only” on a drinking fountain, city police were
called to a home in the 600 block of 25th Street on Sunday to
investigate another racially charged sign.
This one was clearly no joke.
No charges were filed Sunday, but police told the woman she must take
down the handwritten sign on a fence on her property saying, “I rent
three bedrooms [at her address to] white people Niagara Falls.”
The 53-year-old woman told police she put up the sign after someone
tried to break into her house and added, “I can do what I want. I live
in America,” according to a police report.
Police said they received complaints and she must take the sign down. An
officer at the scene said the woman agreed to take down the sign under
protest. The officer said the woman already had seven more signs she was
planning to hang up.
Change you can believe in.
Archangel.