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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Swastikas Drawn on Family's Car at Juneteenth Festival

The family had to ride home from the festival celebrating freedom of black slaves with the symbols of the Holocaust on their car.

Rich Pellegrino, an outspoken activist for immigrants' rights and an Austell resident, and his family saw something drawn on their car as they left the annual Juneteenth festival in Marietta on Saturday. Pellegrino, founder of the Cobb Immigrant Alliance, knew immediately what the swastikas were and what they meant. However, his wife and 11-year-old granddaughter did not. The swastikas were the symbols of the German Nazi Party, which murdered 6 million Jews and 6 million other people from other targeted groups. The swastikas have since become a core symbol of the Neo-Nazi and other white supremacist groups. Juneteenth is a day celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the day the black slaves in Texas learned of their emancipation …

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Austell Immigrant Activist Says Dog's Death Is a Hate Crime

Rich Pellegrino found his dog dead on his front step, and he believes the incident to be a hate crime.

Richard Pellegrino, the Austell resident who heads up the Cobb Immigrant Alliance, said he and his family may be victims of a hate crime. On July 3 around 9:30 a.m., Pellegrino said his family let out Chuckey, his 2-year-old granddaughter's dog that the family had been keeping, as they usually did. At around 1 p.m., Pellegrino's 10-year-old daughter found the Yorkshire Terrier dead on the family's front step. "She came running. She was crying, hysterical," Pellegrino said. He said he was suspicious because the dog was lying perfectly on their front step and because his wife's shoe, which was further away, was filled with blood. Cobb Police told South Cobb Patch that Cobb Animal Control had a veterinarian perform a necropsy, which showed …

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Asiyih Pellegrino

10:47 am on Sunday, November 13, 2011

Tom, the comment you left really irritated me. Just to read what you had to say was painful enough . You shouldn't have posted anything at all, being only 10 years old I wouldn't have even had posted something like that even if he wasn't my dog. That just proves that a child is more machure then you are.   more ›

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