Article 65EV2 Racist bullying shook a small US town. Then came the bomb threats

Racist bullying shook a small US town. Then came the bomb threats

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Mario Koran in Kiel, Wisconsin
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Attempts to protect students in battleground Wisconsin led to a culture-war clash that turned neighbor against neighbor

The Wempner family felt like prisoners as they sat in their home in June.

The kindling for what was shaping up to be their small town's political eruption started two years ago with a documented act of racism directed at their family.

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