LEESBURG, VA — For the second year in a row, fliers promoting the KKK were found in Leesburg and greater Loudoun County the weekend of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Leesburg police said.
Police say the fliers were distributed around the North King Street area of town, and were first reported to post around 8 a.m. on Jan. 20. The fliers contain “propaganda material” and the timing was not coincidental, police said. Their distribution did not appear to be targeted.
“While all these incidents are taken very seriously, at this time, the material appears to have been distributed randomly and was not specifically targeting any particular individual(s),” police said.
Similar fliers were found at homes along Route 9, “along Charles Town Pike from Paeonian Springs to the West Virginia state line,” Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said. The fliers were in plastic bags and weighed down with birdseed.
Anyone with information is asked to call LCSO Detective Hacay at 703-777-1021.
This is the second year that fliers promoting the KKK have been found in Leesburg and Loudoun the weekend of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Like this year, police say the fliers distributed in 2018 were random and were done purposefully to coincide with the holiday celebrating King’s birthday.
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In Oct. 2017, similar fliers were distributed in the area tagged to bags of candy.
Similar candy incidents happened in 2017 in Texas. Tucked inside the plastic bags of candy was a message written in bold black letters from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan that read: “Help save our race! Join the best or die like the rest” and “Say No To Cultural Genocide.”
In August 2016, Gary Monker, who said he is the Exalted Cyclops, or chief officer, in New York of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, told Patch that many people have misconceptions about the organization.
“We’re the only organization right now standing up for whites, upholding the second amendment of the Constitution,” he said. “We are not a hate group. We are Christian and we’re trying to restore America back to what it used to be.”
The Klan, though, has long been recognized as one of the most vile hate groups in the United States, judged so by, among others, The Southern Poverty Law Center.
With previous reporting by Skip Wood, Patch Staff
PULASKI, TN – JULY 11: Members of the Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan participate in the 11th Annual Nathan Bedford Forrest Birthday march July 11, 2009 in Pulaski, Tennessee. With a poor economy and the first African-American president in office, there has been a rise in extremist activity in many parts of America. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2008 the number of hate groups rose to 926, up 4 percent from 2007, and 54 percent since 2000. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War and played a role in the postwar establishment of the first Ku Klux Klan organization opposing the reconstruction era in the South. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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