Fountain Square in Downtown Cincinnati was, for several years, the center of a controversy over free speech. It was during the Christmas season in 1992 that the Ku Klux Klan put a cross on the square, setting off years of legal battles and debate.
Local 12 Reporter Terry Jessup was there when the 10 foot cross was erected. Several protestors came to the square and attempted to take the cross down... and were immediately arrested. The cross went up each year for the next several years.
In 1998, The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that no organization could erect any Holiday Displays on Public or City owned property. Then in 2002, the Ohio Supreme Court overturned that ban.
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