On West End near Cotter schools. Company manufactures ultra-lightweight custom and handmade backpacking gear. Image: Steve Lunde
Incidents all anonymous and in night-time dark
WINONA Minn. – Police have not established a link between vandalism on the Enlightened Equipment camping-gear factory a week ago and a wave of hate-group flyers scattered anonymously around the same West End neighborhood. There was no explicit terrorist message at Enlightened Equipment, police said. A jar filled with brown liquid was thrown from a passing car and smashed on the building about 10:30 at night. The liquid was not identified, but police who investigated the next morning said that it didn’t appear to be an incendiary. The building, 1124 West Fifth Street, is near the Cotter schools where two days later the police started receiving reports of messages left on yards and sidewalks the white supremacist group Aryan Freedom Network. When the propaganda drops were made hasn’t been established; It is pattern for AFN and other hate groups to make anonymous drive-by drops of propaganda at night. Police have not reported finding video of the drive-by propaganda drops. In the Enlightened Equipment attack, a witness told police that the jar was hurled from a white Honda.
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