White South Carolina couple ‘harassed Black neighbors with burning cross’

Worden Butler and Alexis Hartnett charged after FBI search house in Horry county following alleged racially motivated campaign

The FBI has searched a house in South Carolina after a white couple allegedly put up a cross that faced their Black neighbors and set it on fire.

On Wednesday morning, federal agents searched the house of 28-year-old Worden Butler and 27-year-old Alexis Hartnett in Horry county for a “civil rights investigation involving allegations of racial discrimination”, WBTW reports the agency saying.