Police Investigate 2 Possible Hate Crimes Against Mosques
Authorities in Northern California are investigating two possible hate crimes at Islamic centers in Sacramento and Davis.
June 24, 2017, at 10:34 p.m.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in California are investigating two possible hate crimes against Islamic centers in Sacramento and Davis.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department says it is investigating an incident at Masjid Annur Islamic Center in Sacramento. Officials say a deputy was waved down by a citizen Saturday afternoon and was led to a burned Quran filled with bacon, hanging by a handcuff from a fence.
The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2sDGhM2) that in a separate incident someone driving by in a car threw pages torn out of a Quran into the Islamic Center of Davis Friday night, during evening prayer.
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On a related note, there was that Mosque that burned down in Victoria Texas near the end of January, a man has been charged with that fire just in the last 2 days.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-indicted-for-hate-crime-for-texas-mosque-fire/The man was a suspect for some time, they decided to finally indict him.
