Please provide some examples of harassment and hate crimes?
These incidents began when a man riding an ATV attacked our ox cart and then told us that our ox cart was illegal, and that the Village Board and Police agreed that it had to be stopped. Another time, when we protested a very unfair decision by the Village Board with a kirtan (congregational chanting of the names of God) to the Village Circle, a neighbor used his riding lawn mower as a weapon, shooting gravel and clouds of dust to drive us (including children) away from his home, and finally causing injuries. The police refused to help even when the man repeated this behavior a year later, attempting to stop us from using our cow to cut (graze) our front lawn. When we parked our truck in the way to prevent him from doing this again, WE were given a ticket for illegally parking!
