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Burning Crosses Still Exist ~ Still a Hate Crime
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   HAWTHORNE — A 20-year-old white man was arrested Thursday and accused of burning a cross in a black family’s front yard.
   The suspect’s sister had been involved in a school fight with a 15-year-old boy from the black family just hours before the cross appeared last week, Capt. Keith Corlett said at a news conference. Corlett announced later that the boy was also arrested, on a juvenile assault charge.
   The cross-burning suspect, Christopher Hudak of Cortlandt Manor, was arraigned on a charge of aggravated harassment. Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore said the case would be prosecuted as a hate crime.
   No plea was entered. A call to Hudak’s lawyer, John Sullivan, was not immediately returned.
   Corlett said cross burnings have historically symbolized racism in “a graphic and grotesque manner.”

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