BLACK MAN ARRESTED FOR POSTING KKK HATE SIGNS OUTSIDE BLACK CHURCH
By
NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
July 5, 2015
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At
a time when the nation is still reeling from the racially-motivated
attack on a black church in South Carolina that left nine churchgoers,
including their pastor, dead, a
black male suspect, who tried to pass off his racist threats as
being made by a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested by Colorado
Springs,
Colorado, police officers on Tuesday. The 44-year old man is being held
for posting the offensive signs at a predominately black church, according
to law enforcement.
Vincent Broughton, a resident of Colorado Springs, is accused of posting signs near a church at the 200 block of East Platte Avenue, according to a police statement on Tuesday. One of the signs read: [sic]"HELP This church identified 6 Devils for the K.K.K The Police." The homemade signs appeared on three consecutive Sundays outside the New Covenant Church, a Pentecostal Christian denominational church.
The congregation's pastor, Rev. Roland Joyner, told police that he believed the signs were hung up outside of his church during the Sunday afternoon service. He told police that one of the signs said "Black men be aware, you are the target." A woman, Holly Garvin, who lived in the neighborhood close to the church but was not a member of the congregation, said that she replaced the racist messages with positive, Christian signs such as: "no more violence" and "God loves us all."
When the racist signs were first discovered posted outside of New Covenant Church, Pastor Joyner told reporters that out of fear for the safety of his "flock" he locked the doors while the churchgoers were inside worshiping. "While this incident doesn't rise to the severity of the South Carolina black church slaughter by a white racist suspect, it nonetheless caused great concern to the Christians in Colorado Springs as well as to the police department," said Ronald Faisel, a former New York State police officer and member of the religious organization Cops for Christ.
Broughton was taken into custody by police without incident on Tuesday after he was a suspect in the posting of more signs in the Colorado Springs downtown area, according to reports. police said. "I did it. Probably about 100 or so, I'd come downtown everyday and put up the posters." said Broughton.
"I want people to know how corrupt these people that run the town are, the police department, city council and people in the community," said Broughton. However, he didn't mention why he wished the pastor and the churchgoers to think the Ku Klux Klan was responsible for the hateful messages.
The suspected KKK impersonator is charged with perpetrating a biased-motivated crime, disorderly conduct, harassment, and littering, according to the police. He was served with a Desk Appearance Ticket (DAT) to appear in court and released, police said.
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According to former New York police detectives Samuel Washington and Peter Hernandez, the suspect may have wish to create conflict between whites and blacks in the community.
In the case that has caused so much concern throughout the nation, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof is charged with killing nine persons at a landmark black church in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17. Police and the prosecutors allege the shootings were racially motivated since the victims were black and the shooter, Roof, is a white male who allegedly uttered racist comments.
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