California: Authorities in California are investigating two possible hate crimes against Islamic centers in Sacramento and Davis, AP reported.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department said it is investigating an incident at Masjid Annur Islamic Center in Sacramento. Officials said a deputy was waved down by a citizen Saturday afternoon and was led to a burned Qur’an filled with bacon, hanging by a handcuff from a fence.
The Sacramento Bee news website reported on a separate incident when someone driving in a car threw pages torn out of a Qur’an into the Islamic Center of Davis Friday night, during taraweeh prayer.
In January, a woman broke windows of the mosque and left bacon strips on the entrance handles.
The woman, 30-year-old Lauren Kirk-Coehlo, recently received five years’ probation after pleading guilty to a felony hate crime.
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