Justice

Not much to say other than major props go out to the cops for catching these racist morons.

From the AP:

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Three white men were arrested Friday in connection with the torching of a predominantly black church hours after Barack Obama won the presidential election.

The Nov. 5 fire destroyed the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, which was under construction.
The suspects, Benjamin Haskell, 23, Michael Jacques, 24, and Thomas Gleason, 21, were held without bail after a hearing in federal court in Springfield. No pleas were entered at the hearing.

The men were charged with violating a civil rights conspiracy statute that makes it illegal to injure, threaten, or intimidate anyone from exercising their civil rights.

It wasn't immediately clear if the men were being charged with setting the fire.

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Investigators got a break in the case when a witness came forward and said he'd been driven to the site of the fire by two of the accused men. He said Jacques asked him who he had voted for in the election; when he responded "Obama," Jacques replied with a profane racial epithet, then said he thought Obama would be assassinated, the unidentified witness told investigators.

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Haskell told authorities Jacques said he was angry the country was going to have an African-American president and that he thought "blacks and Puerto Ricans would now have more rights than whites," according to the affidavit.

The church's pastor, the Rev. Bryant Robinson Jr., said after the fire that he suspected it was related to the election of Obama, who will be the nation's first black president.

He said Friday the arrests gave the church a sense of confidence the system doesn't allow people to get away with wrongdoing.