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Vandals KKK paint on items

CEDAR RAPIDS — Vandals struck a Cedar Rapids neighborhood, marring vehicles, mailboxes and garage doors with the letters KKK.

Police have responded to at least four calls there in the past three days.

Tammy Koolbeck, one of the victims, said she wondered whether the vandal or vandals understand what KKK really means.

In early January residents in a Cedar Rapids neighborhood found fliers on cars and doors that appeared to promote the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organization in the U.S. with a bloody history.

Police are not investigating the vandalism as a hate crime. They suspect it’s the work of teenagers. — AP


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