Midwestern Somali Restaurant Set Ablaze After Nazi Symbols Found

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A Somali restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota was set ablaze early Tuesday morning, according to the Grand Forks Herald newspaper.

Police were investigating the incident, which was reported just after 2 a.m. and caused some $90,000 in damages at Juba Coffee & Restaurant.

The Herald reported that law enforcement was already looking into a possible hate crime that occurred at the restaurant days earlier, when Nazi symbols were found painted on the restaurant’s exterior along with the words “go home.”

Authorities told the newspaper that they haven’t yet determined whether the incidents were connected.

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  1. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

  2. You know how you get a sense of being polluted by filth, a visceral sense of revulsion and disgust, whenever you read anything from neo-Nazis or other organized haters? I think before this is all over that filth will be reaching out into the collective awareness of the decent, thoughtful people more and more. And whenever it happens, and people are talking about it, don’t forget to say it’s been building up for a long time and the Limbaughs, Becks, and other assorted polluters at Fox are responsible. People generally don’t know, and they need to be told. This didn’t just happen. It was made to happen and we know who did it.

  3. a/k/a the Weimer Republic.

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