Man rolls pig's head into mosque; cops laugh

[WildEyedLiberal]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2006/08... /

AUBURN, Maine --A Lewiston man accused of rolling a pig's head into a mosque talked to a police officer beforehand and believed he'd be guilty only of littering or improperly disposing of animal parts, according to court documents.

Brent Matthews said he ran into a longtime friend who's a police officer at the Lewiston Mall a week before the July 3 incident and asked about the ramifications of leaving a pig's head in a doorway, the documents said.

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A police spokesman said Syphers warned Matthews that using a pig's head as a prank could be considered a hate crime. That suggests Matthews mentioned targeting Somalis.

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In court documents, Matthews said law enforcement authorities did not treat the incident seriously. The investigating officers, the officer who drove Matthews to the jail and jail intake officials laughed about the incident, Matthews said in court documents. Matthews claimed that one of the officers said, "I wish I had thought of that."

Yeah, hate crimes are so fucking hysterical.