What this man did to convince his wife not to divorce him is a crime
NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Donna Williams “was scared to death” when she saw a cross burning in the driveway of her Panama City, FL, home. But if the mixed race couple (she is white; LB Williams, her husband of seven years, is black) was the victim of a hate crime, it had a rather unusual motive, The News Herald (Panama City) reports:
Two days later, Donna found a note taped to the front door and the side entrance of the house.
She paraphrased:
“They were watching us, I assumed me and the kids, and that I better not leave that [N-word],” Donna Williams said. The note was signed “KKK.” …
“When did the KKK start supporting black and white, interracial marriages?” she asked. …
LB Williams admitted to setting the fire and posting the notes, according to the arrest affidavit charging him with two felonies: domestic violence stalking and exhibits that intimidate. He did it, he said, so she wouldn’t proceed with the divorce she filed for.
The cross and the notes were the desperate acts of a desperate man, Williams said. Police agreed. The fact that Williams was released from jail on two felonies without any bond might be a good indication of the danger he poses to the community (though he’s not allowed to go home, a standard condition of bond in domestic violence cases).
Although Donna Williams now knows the strange events at her home were not a hate crime, but “a love crime,” as the paper put it – and even taking into account that LB “truly is a good man. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t do drugs and he works like a dog” – she plans to go ahead with the divorce.
[Hat Tip: OpinionJournal]
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