Police investigate cross burned into lawn of New York mosque http://t.co/1gNJTdNukQ pic.twitter.com/ZOogEEdnGF
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) September 4, 2015
Buffalo TV station WVIB reported that the image was spotted outside a mosque on Fuller Road in Waterport, New York. An Orleans County Sheriff’s deputy told the news station that the agency has investigated several other incidents at the mosque as possible hate crimes in the past.
The New York Times reported on disturbances at the mosque, which is the only Islamic house of worship in Orleans County, back in 2010 while a debate raged over the construction of an Islamic center in downtown Manhattan.
This isn’t the only recent event there - a car was set ablaze in the parking lot back in June under suspicious circumstances.