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Pennsylvania prosecutor probing truck with anti-MLK imagery

By Associated Press
Published: January 18, 2017, 10:24am

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A truck sporting images and messages against slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has drawn the attention of western Pennsylvania authorities.

It was seen around Johnstown on the King holiday, featuring a sign extolling King assassin James Earl Ray, a Confederate flag, a dark stuffed animal hanging from a noose and a mannequin of a black man.

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