Ruth Cohen found the remnants of a burned cross in her front yard in
Apolacon, Pennsylvania.
Apolacon, Pennsylvania.
Cohen, a retired Queens school principal, is Jewish. Johnson, a retired architect, is black. It was not immediately clear whether the cross-burning was motivated by racism, antisemitism, or something else. Cohen believes the act may have been committed in frustration by someone unhappy with the presidential election of Barack Obama, whom the couple supported.
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