{"id":75036,"date":"2026-06-18T08:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/man-charged-with-hate-crime-over-cross-burning-in-chicago-park\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:56:36","slug":"man-charged-with-hate-crime-over-cross-burning-in-chicago-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/man-charged-with-hate-crime-over-cross-burning-in-chicago-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with hate crime over cross burning in Chicago park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merlin Lu faces felony and misdemeanor charges after police released images of a suspect fleeing the scene<\/p>\n<p>A 21- year old man who admitted to setting fire to a cross in Chicago\u2019s Grant Park last week is now in police custody on hate crime charges, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/chicago\">Chicago<\/a> police.<\/p>\n<p>Merlin Lu was arrested and charged with four felony and four misdemeanor counts related to the incident on 9 June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/18\/man-charged-hate-crime-burning-cross-chicago\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlin Lu faces felony and misdemeanor charges after police released images of a suspect fleeing the scene A 21- year old man who admitted to setting fire to a cross in Chicago\u2019s Grant Park last week is now in police custody on hate crime charges, per Chicago police. Merlin Lu was arrested and charged with &#8230; <a title=\"Man charged with hate crime over cross burning in Chicago park\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/man-charged-with-hate-crime-over-cross-burning-in-chicago-park\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man charged with hate crime over cross burning in Chicago park\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}