University Daliv Kansan / Tuesday. October 9. 1990
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Crimes shock neighborhoods
'KKK' graffiti, burned cross leave residents with questions
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
Hate crimes in Lawrence last week, including a cross burned at one location and the letters "KKK" spray-painted on seven buildings, shocked most of the people involved in the attacking to see what would happen next.
Nunez said she thought the recent crimes would escalate to a seriousness similar to the riots in Lawrence about 20 years ago, when two people were killed, buildings were burned a curve was impassed on the city.
"It reminds me of back in the '70s when the riots started," said Brenda Nunez, director of the East Lawrence school district. "Now that how it started - just like this."
wednesday and Thursday nights, the letters "KKK" were spraypainted on two homes in the 800 block of Connecticut Street, at the Corner of North Harlem and Haskell Ave., at East Heights Elementary School, 1430 Haskell Ave.; at New York Elementary School, 938 New York St.; at the East Lawrence Recreation Center, 1245 E. Edgewood Homes, 1600 Haskell Ave.
A cross also was burned at Edgewood Homes. "KKK" is an acronym for Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacy organization known historically for burning crosses in a show of violence against minorities.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesperson, said detectives were investigating suspect information when a radio call had telephoned to the department.
The height of the letters from the ground in the Edgeworth Homes incident led the police to think that juveniles had committed the crimes. Those letters were 32 inches from the ground and were 4 to 8 inches tall.
Numeri said the letters on the recreation center building were painted in white spray paint about 5 feet tall in five different places on the building. The bottoms of the letters were about 5 feet from the ground.
She said she thought adults or teenagers vandalized the building because it was done after tp.m. She said she was young children would be at home.
Nuner said she thought that whoever vandalized the buildings in Lawrence chose places that Black people would see.
Tim Folds, pastor of Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church, said the letters "KKK" had been painted in light blue or gray spray paint about 2 feet tall and 1 foot wide over a door at the south end of the church, where they were illuminated by a street light.
Racial Vandalism The letters "KKK" were spray-painted at these locations in Lawrence. A cross was burned at the Edgewood Homes.
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"It would have to have been a mighty tall juvenile to do that," Folds said.
Racial vandalism
There are no Black members attending the church, he said.
He said the letters had been cleaned off the church before services Sunday. Most people did not know what to do, but he told some church members
Source: Police reports
"They just shook their heads and had a 'Why would somebody do that to our building?' type response," Folds said. "Those who knew about it just couldn't believe somebody would do that to a church building."
Robert Taylor, assistant superintendent of the Lawrence school district, said the letters "KKK" had been painted about 6 to 8 inches tall on the front doors of New York Elementary School.
have provoked hate crimes at either school.
Barbara Huppe, executive director of the Lawrence Housing Authority, said the cross she found leaning against the office building at Edgewood Homes was about 2 feet tail and 1 foot wide. It had been made with wood that would not dumper about 25 feet from the Edgewood Homes office building.
The letters "KKK" also were written with white spray paint on the back of a maintenance garage and on a playground slide at Edgeworth
Homes, Huppee said. Those letters were about 1 foot tall.
Huppe said all of the residents at Edgewood Homes, slightly more than half of whom are Black, were shocked at the vandalism.
She said that at a meeting she scheduled to inform the residents about what had happened, they decided to work together as a community to watch out for crime in their neighborhood.
"It's the visual equivalent of not turning a deaf ear,"Huppee said.
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