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The harassment reached its peak when the white couple was arrested in December 2023 after they were accused of erecting and setting fire to a cross outside the home of their Black neighbors during ...

The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple who allegedly burned a cross just steps away from their black neighbors’ home in a shocking act of racism. Federal agents searched the ...

The cross burning was the final straw, so they called Horry County police. Officers arrested their neighbors, 28-year-old Worden Butler and 27-year-old Alexis Hartnett, and charged them with ...

Worden Butler and Alexis Harnett were arrested for second-degree harassment after they allegedly burned a cross on a Black couple’s lawn in South Carolina. By Noah A. McGee Published December 18 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi man who burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors pleaded guilty to a hate crime in federal court, the Justice Department announced Friday ...