Ronald Cooper looks out his daughters' bedroom window after it was vandalized by white teens in a series of racially charged attacks in April 2012. A group of white people threw chunks of brick, a hockey puck and a baseball bat through the door at the home. Later, carloads of white people drive by shouting racial slurs.
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Kelly Kohr and Mario Echevarria, a mixed race couple, woke up to a burning cross on the lawn in front of their South Park Avenue apartment on July 7, 2008.Â
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Matthew Jurado, 39, is led out of the North Tonawanda Police Station by an officer on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, after being arraigned on an arson charge for intentionally starting a fire in the home of his neighbor, a Black firefighter who had received racist threats in the mail.Â
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People scrub racist graffiti off the fence at the Parks family home on Monday, May 16, 2022, before Home Depot workers installed a new fence.Â
By Charlie Specht and Stephen T. Watson
News Staff Reporters
The killing of 10 members of Buffalo's African American community in a Jefferson Avenue supermarket last month was the most deadly racially motivated attack in Buffalo's history.
Ronald Cooper looks out his daughters' bedroom window after it was vandalized by white teens in a series of racially charged attacks in April 2012. A group of white people threw chunks of brick, a hockey puck and a baseball bat through the door at the home. Later, carloads of white people drive by shouting racial slurs.
Kelly Kohr and Mario Echevarria, a mixed race couple, woke up to a burning cross on the lawn in front of their South Park Avenue apartment on July 7, 2008.Â
Matthew Jurado, 39, is led out of the North Tonawanda Police Station by an officer on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, after being arraigned on an arson charge for intentionally starting a fire in the home of his neighbor, a Black firefighter who had received racist threats in the mail.Â
