1. The Civil Rights Division prosecuted the offender after he sought to intimidate the victim by burning a cross near his home. 2. Black is the man convicted of burning a cross at a Virginia Klan rally. 3. Burning a cross or using any other symbol to express an opinion is protected free speech, he said, even if the speech is unpopular. 4. Burning a cross on the courthouse lawn, however, likely would get them arrested. 5. But some artificial extended families connect with each other by burning crosses on front lawns or wearing black trench coats to school to conceal their weapons. 6. But some artificial extended families connect with each other by burning crosses on front lawns or wearing black trenchcoats to school to conceal their weapons. 7. Crosses were burned on his lawn twice. 8. Federal prosecutors said burning a cross is legal but doing so to threaten and intimidate a U.S. citizen is a crime. 9. He admitted burning the cross and carrying the gun but said he was making a statement under his right of freedom of speech. 10. He became a racist who once laughed when the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on the lawn of the first black family to move into his neighborhood. |