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Three people have been arrested on hate crime charges for blanketing a small upstate New York state with white supremacist pamphlets, authorities said.
Racist, anti-Semitic literature has been left at locations including a synagogue and a predominantly black church in Hornell, upstate New York, Police Chief TJ Murray said Monday in a Facebook statement.
The May 14 shooting that killed 10 black men about 70 miles away at a Buffalo supermarket highlighted racist attitudes in the predominantly white South, near the Pennsylvania border. Authorities say the white shooter in that shooting drove to Buffalo from his home in the southside village of Conklin.
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In Hornell, the first flyer was found taped to the door of Rehoboth Deliverance Ministries as people began arriving for Sunday morning services, church member Marcina Harmonson told the Evening Tribune of Hornell. The leaflet promoted the “Aryan National Army” and featured a skull placed inside a swastika.
Three men have been arrested in connection with racially motivated vandalism in Hornell, New York. (Fox News)
Harmonson said church members are concerned, especially given the recent shooting in Buffalo. “And when you have kids, young people, old people, they don’t know what to think,” she said. “Many of them have never experienced anything like this.”
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Officials found similar material attached to the front of the Temple Beth-El synagogue and in other places, including driveways, doors and a park, Murray said.
Then on Monday, police spotted two men distributing the literature, authorities said. After officers searched their home, the two men and a woman were arrested on 115 counts each of aggravated harassment, a hate crime. It’s unclear if they have attorneys available to comment on the allegations.
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Mayor John Buckley called the racist leaflets an aberration for the tight-knit community. “These are three delusional individuals who have hatred in their hearts,” Buckley told The New York Times. “It’s something that doesn’t reflect Hornell.”
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