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as a front and then you just get the word out that there's people there that are people started streaming in and they say, oh yeah, I stole this the other day. Very open about telling you? And we videotape every, every transaction and record it and they

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deal with them, you know, zoom down on the prices and it's really quite a, quite an operation. If we, if we could do enough of those, we would have the burglars so paranoid that they would, Sheriff Rainey. What are the limits on law enforcement in dealing

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with racial incidents or groups like the KKK. What can you do and what can you do? Are there any lessons in all this? Would you handle things differently in the future? Really? Any lessons rolling? Any lessons out of all this? What would you do differently in

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the future? No charlie any lessons out of this? Is there anything that you would do differently in the future? Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Bye. Yeah. What was the name of the picture? I agree. Yeah. Letter. Hey, thank you. Wait.

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Yeah, I am got it. Nice. Okay. Oh, don't wait. She looks like hi, hi, what's with that guy? Come on. What's he doing? Recording? Yeah. Yeah. You can tell about the only blonde girl in the crowd. Yeah.

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No. Mm hmm. It's a girl. Yeah. Mhm. Yes. Yeah. No. Yeah. Yes. Mm hmm. Mhm, mm

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hmm. Okay. But yes. Mhm. Yeah. No, he didn't. Yes. No. Yeah. Yeah. Mm

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hmm. No. What? All right, click what? Mhm. It's and just as much as I will be mrs Ireland when did you and your family move into the Tara Hills neighborhood? And why

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did you move there? Why did you decide to go there? We moved into Tara Hills two years ago almost. Exactly. And we moved into the area because it seemed like a nice quiet neighborhood and the school, the schooling there, there were plenty of schools so that

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there will be no problem right there in the neighborhood. And I just fell in love with the area. I had no idea that anything else existed other than it being a nice neighborhood. And when did the incidents of racial harassment begin? I started the very same

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day we moved in. So there were people that came by that, you know, hollered *** right off the bat. You know, get out the same night as someone wrote. KKK get out *** on the back of my husband's car with shaving cream. They started throwing eggs

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at the house and at our cars. And just from the beginning it's it's nothing new. Who were these people? Did you ever see them? Did they strike? Only in the night? They struck at night? No, you didn't see them. Typical typical of all the incidents. It

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was mostly when you didn't couldn't you didn't see them at all. And it's cowardice to me. In one incident, someone actually drove a pickup truck into your okay, Let me just remember. Don't roll for in in one case and one in one case and one incident

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a pickup truck was actually driven into your house. Could you describe that? Well, it wasn't a pickup truck, it was a car that was jacked up in the back, you know, I guess. I don't know what they do with them. And we were, well, we were

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asleep but we were in the family room as usual trying to watch the house and we had fallen asleep again from being up so much for about two weeks. And uh, we uh heard the glass crashing and uh, we looked around, we woke up and looked

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around this, this car is backed into the house and then he just pulled on off. You know, my husband jumped up and went outside and he saw the, you know, back into the car. The car even had the nerve to come back. But the first thing

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I did was go to the phone to call the Sheriff's department and they showed up some two hours later after a lot of calling back and forth between the Highway patrol and the Sheriff's department, I called them and they told me to call the highway patrol.

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This is out of their jurisdiction because it's a car is involved. So it's traffic or whatever. And I had to call back and forth between the two and it's just the guy even came back. He had time to come back and right bye in general in

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this case you say you waited two hours for the police finally to come in general. How do you think the police handled this? Were they coming on time? Were they helpful? Oh, no. Very, very lackluster about the whole thing. It's as though they were condoning it

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to me. Mm hmm. I feel that the, all the series of incidents that were happening would not have happened. Had there been something done from the first incident and each one was worse than the last. And to me, it's just a result of nothing being done

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at all. Even after my husband captured one of the use that had thrown rocks to our windows in our home and held him there until the Sheriff's department got there, the officer, uh, just turn him loose. Let him go. He didn't get his name or anything

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as far as I could see. Yeah, there was no report made of it or anything. This type of action from the Sheriff's department is what I consider the reason for it. Just continuing on. As long as it did two. Did the situation change any? When you

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began to go to the press and when some of the volunteer guards came out, did that help? That was the only thing that helped us that prompted the sheriff's department even into taking some action and trying to find out who was doing it and stopping the

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action itself and patrolling the area. I had to have people were, there were people that volunteered to come out and help us to watch our home. There were no violent groups. They were just sitting there and any unusual incidents. They wrote them down or whatever. But

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that is the only thing that stopped it from people volunteering to help people who cared. Yeah. What is this meant for you and for your family to have gone through All these incidents now for two years? Well, it's it's it's been devastating to my kids. I

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know it it took a lot of effect on them mentally. It's hurt them. Um I talked to them as I did before any of these things happen and I still, I still try to stress to them not to hate right whites because of the low mentality

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of these Klan people clan like people or whatever. And but it did take a great effect on them there paranoid almost when we are there in that area. It's um so they're they're suppressed ah they're not happy. They should be happy as I was when I

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was a child. Yeah, but they're there right. There are different Children altogether when they're not in terror Hills. Yeah. They smile more. Mhm. Just like different Children. It's terrible what it what it's done to them. It was, it was like a shock. I'm sure they're not

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ignorant to racism. They hadn't been before that, but I don't think they thought it would happen that way. Be allowed to go on that, that they couldn't understand any more than I could. And I couldn't even explain to them why it was allowed to go on

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the way it did. What about your neighbors? Did you get any support from people in the neighborhood? Only after it was brought to the media? You know, and it was brought out in the open, um, during the time that we were being harassed, vandalized. It was

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as though nothing was happening as far as they were concerned And this had gone on for two weeks. Yeah. The neighbors even turn their porch lights out at night. Someone had busted out the street corner light and I'm right on the corner and it was pitch

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dark, which made it easier for them to come around and attack us without us knowing who they were. And the neighbors that used to keep their lights on, had them out and we had the only lights on the street, I had to put a floodlight out

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on the side of my house to shine all the way down the street. It was terrible. I am unbelievable that these people in the area, you think they'd want to do something about it. But then who knows how many of them were involved? What can be

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done about a situation like this? What advice would you give to someone in your position in another community somewhere else in the country? Yes. If you are you saying if this were to happen to them. Um, well, the first thing uh, I would tell them to

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go to their, a local organization, community organization to try to get something done within the community. Um, the law enforcement naturally try them first. Um, but try to get on top of it before it gets too far, you know, out of hand, don't rely on just

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one source. Thank you. Good. Thank you. They're still breaking windows are going by. Breaking windows and stuff and it's just really stupid. I can't believe it. The man that lives next door, he tries to keep it from me. He really doesn't want me to continue to

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discuss what's happening in the area. They're worried about it financially. The value of their homes going down or whatever. But I think it's worse. You know, if you don't get something done about it, you know, they don't want to be named. Mhm. And uh, some, I'm

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sure it must have come from, from some other area. You know, there were motorcycles and Um, different lowrider car like they were in their early 20s or so and you could say a few middle aged Amen. Cruised by. It's only because it really did. It was

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pitch dark down there. Yeah, I just that I couldn't believe I can see being afraid of anything, suck it. Mm hmm