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Harmon agreed not to press charges in exchange for a letter of apology in the Sauvie Island Outlook and some repairs at the Humane Society. Locke, who lives in Washington County, wrote the apology; however, he has never done the repairs. Last weekend, the heavy hand of discipline patted Locke on the wrist again. He was stripped of his presidency of the Portland chapter of the OHA. Some board members argued unsuccessfully that Locke should be kicked out of the group completely. "Personally, I thought he should have been expelled automatically," says Steve Stouder, OHA state secretary. Stouder calls the cross-burning "despicable, a universal symbol of hatred and bigotry." Locke, for his part, still doesn't know what all the fuss is about, insisting that his act was simply a misunderstood prank. "It's probably something you shouldn't do," he told WW. "Anyway, I did it." Harmon told WW she never saw anything funny about what Locke did two years ago, or his response since then. "There's no way a symbol of hatred could ever be regarded as a joke," she said. |
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