Grant Park cross burner was sending a message to ‘MAGA Christian nationalist supporters’ of Donald Trump – CWB Chicago

Merlin Lu told reporters that his target was not a racial group, but rather supporters of President Donald Trump, whom he described as “MAGA Christian nationalist supporters.” His chosen method of protest: placing a red baseball cap atop a cross, the central symbol of Christianity, and setting it ablaze in Grant Park. He insists he had no idea that burning crosses are a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan.