ROCHESTER, Minn. — Police asked for help investigating a spray-paint attack on the home of  State Representative Kim Hicks. “We take incidents like this very seriously,” the Department said in a public statement. The Hicks home is in northwest Rochester, where a banner with the demeaning word “njgger” was posted in June over a four-lane highway near Century High School. The culprits were identified as Century students, but Mark Ostrem the attorney for Olmsted County, said the case would be too problematic to prosecute.

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