It had the face of Frankenstein and the hands of a werewolf.
Outfitted in jeans and flannel shirt, the creature - stuffed with crumpled newspaper - hung by the neck on a homemade gallows outside a home in the Allendale [Florida] neighborhood.
To its owner, "Bob" was a Halloween decoration. But to Omali Yeshitela, it was a racially charged symbol of hate.
On Tuesday, as police officers on the scene scrambled to contact the homeowner at work, Yeshitela and others from the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement tore the dummy down.
"There is no history of hanging ghouls in this country but there is a history of hanging African people," said Yeshitela, leader of the St. Petersburg-based group ... Yeshitela said he would do it all again, even if it meant going onto private property. "The issue of private property holds no special mystique," he said. "We have been private property as a people."
The owner of "Bob" declined to press charges. The article is
here.
Personally, I think Mr. Yeshitela has some serious issues and needed to be charged, or at least needs some counseling. Stretching reality to see a racial threat in a 15-year-old's Halloween display of the Frankenstein's Monster ... and then inciting a mob to enter the yard via gate and tear it down ... sheesh. A loon looking for publicity.
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