September 2020 photo of a sign that reads Redneck Hangout with an image of a noose, outside of a cottage in Greenfield, NS. Photo: Angela Bowden.
达特茅斯的马克·安德鲁·科兹洛夫斯基（Mark Andrew Kozlowski）面临着刑事指控故意促进仇恨。
这些指控源于2020年9月向皇后区加拿大皇后区皇后区的投诉，讲述了一个小屋外的标志，该小屋读了乡下人聚会场，并有绞索的图像。
在2020年劳动节周末，黑人的安吉拉·鲍登（Angela Bowden）说，她在布里奇沃特（Bridgewater）以西约30公里的格林菲尔德（Greenfield）的一间小屋拜访一群朋友时发现了标志。
“那个标志是一个明确的指示,我not safe in that part of the woods,” Bowden said in an interview with the Halifax Examiner on Wednesday.
“这毁了整个访问，因为您必须欣赏，我们现在坐落在一间小屋，在树林里，沿着街道上的一个人，一个人置于种族主义威胁的迹象。”
“除非您在另一个星球上长大，否则该标志清楚了绞索指示的内容。”
鲍登（Bowden）拍摄了该物业和标志的照片，并将其发布到社交媒体上。鲍登（Bowden）的朋友杰西卡·赫本（Jessika Hepburn）居住在该地区，将信息传递给了警察。
2020年9月，格林菲尔德一家小屋的照片显示了一个标志，该标志读了带有绞索图像的乡下环聊。照片：安吉拉·鲍登（Angela Bowden）。
加拿大皇家骑警在周三发布的一份声明中说，科兹洛夫斯基最初在投诉作出投诉后一周被捕，然后释放，等待进一步调查。
Bowden’s discovery of the sign also happened just weeks after a Black man, Greg Dean, and his wife, Cyndi Rafuse,谈到了切斯特的事件。In that case, Dean and Rafuse were with their two teenage sons on a beach when they said they were approached and threatened by white teenagers waving an actual noose. Two teens were later charged in May of 2021 with公众煽动仇恨关于该事件。
Police quietly charge Kozlowski
鲍登说，她最近与赫本谈了此案。
“When we spoke just a few weeks ago she was talking about how she was going to follow up with them again because we hadn’t heard anything about any charges being laid or anything,” Bowden said. “It was just sort of silent.”
However, charges were laid back in March. The news came on Wednesday when RCMP released a statement moments after Kozlowski’s scheduled court appearance.
语句阅读：
“皇后区皇家骑警已指控一名46岁的达特茅斯（Dartmouth）的男子故意促进仇恨。
On September 8, 2020, the Queens District RCMP received a complaint that a sign promoting hatred was visible from the roadway. Officers located the sign affixed to a cabin on Beaver Tail Ln. The next day, the owner of the cabin had the sign taken down.
On September 16, 2020 officers arrested the owner, Mark Andrew Kozlowski, and subsequently seized the sign. Kozlowski was released pending further investigation.
On March 22, 2022, Queens District RCMP charged Kozlowski with Wilfully Promoting Hatred Against Any Identifiable Group. He will appear in Bridgewater Provincial Court on May 18, at 9:30 a.m.”
“从什么时候开始，加拿大皇家骑警和警察局就开始隐藏他们指控人们犯罪？当黑人犯罪时，他们当然不会这样做。”鲍登说。
Kozlowski is president of Wilson Equipment Ltd., a heavy equipment company. In the days after the discovery of the sign in 2020, Wilson Equipment Ltd.issued a statement on their website that read:
“我们今天了解到，在马克的小屋不知情或同意的情况下，在马克的小屋中提出了进攻性信号。马克意识到，他立即将其拆除。提出注册是某人开玩笑的想法。一个毫无意义的令人反感的笑话。威尔逊设备的马克和任何人都没有支持标志传达的种族主义信息。我们相信公平和包容性，并拒绝任何暗示其他建议的信息。”
Bowden previously spoke out about racial injustice in the province with respect to thesentencing of a white man who shot a young Black man用指甲枪在肺中，关于criminal charges being dropped before trial against New Glasgow Mayor Nancy Dickswhere Dicks had been charged with assaulting Bowden.
Still, Bowden said she is cautiously optimistic about the outcome of case involving Kozlowski.
“My hope is that in light of the context of the anti-Black hate that is flourishing openly and privately in this province and abroad, and the escalating anti-Black terror that’s happening in this province and globally, is that they will view this charge under that context, that we will finally take acts of threats against Black people in Nova Scotia and abroad seriously,” she said.
“My expectation is that the justice system will do their job and deliver justice.”
科兹洛夫斯基的律师维克多·戈德堡（Victor Goldberg）于周三在布里奇沃特法院（Bridgewater Court）代表他出庭，以无罪不认罪。Kozlowski的审判日期定于2023年3月27日至28日。
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