Posted on 12/24/2015 2:10:45 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Authorities in Granite Quarry are looking for the people responsible for littering several locations with Ku Klux Klan notes.
Granite Quarry-Faith Joint Police Authority Chief Mark Cook told WBTV that someone dropped the fliers in various locations sometime before noon on Monday. The fliers, which start off with "Merry Christmas," go on to read "Join the Klan today and preserved the white Christian ways."
Fliers without the Christmas message that read "Join The Klan And Save Our Land" were also reportedly dropped off at several places in Iredell County.
The fliers are from the East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire, a group out of Pennsylvania. Police said they seemed to be tossed out at random locations. Officers canvassed neighborhoods and destroyed about 30 fliers that they found.
"It was disappointing to say the least to see this ignorant message of hate littered in our Town by a member(s) of a known hate group, masked in a Christmas message," Chief Cook wrote in a letter to WBTV. "Our community and department does not condone or support any such activity or the spreading of hate."
Chief Cook continued, "It is my hope that those that try to spread their message of hate would open their mind and heart and seek to bring unity instead of spreading messages of ignorance and division; especially during this holiday season."
Police believe the person dropping off the flier was driving a small dark-colored car with a loud muffler. They say there’s nothing in the flyer that is a hate crime or hate speech, but officers are still looking for whoever dropped the packages in people's yards.
"We’re at least looking at charging them with littering and then contacting the state and local officials that deal more with hate crime involvement,†Chief Cook said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Granite Quarry Police.
“Why is the police investigating!?!?!?
That is a very good question:”
No, it’s not a very good question. /grammar Nazi :)
Rumor is, that when the perp is apprehended, the police are going to add ‘disturbing the peace’ to the ‘littering’ charge.
KKK are Democrats.
Yup, the left always tries to disassociate with its party’s past, but the KKK, Jim Crow laws, and the evil institution of slavery all supported and fought for by Democrats!
There's always more room for litterbugs on the ol' group W bench.
Give the perp a month of community service --- picking up litter. That would be fitting, wouldn't it?
Political correctness. At worst they could be charged with littering.
“Officers canvassed neighborhoods and destroyed about 30 fliers that they found.”
Maybe I’m missing something here, but isn’t this protected by the First Amendment?
Is there a “Group W” bench in their future?
Yup.
Oh No! They committed the crime of ‘freedom of the press’.
I have never liked the concept of 'hate crimes'...We at least need to start calling them by their proper name...thought crimes.
I don’t think most littering triggers a police investigation.
The problem with prosecuting hate is: Who gets to define hate? In this case, its apparently the police chief:
“We don’t want that information in our town.”
I hope I never drive through his town with a ‘hateful’ bumper sticker.
Cops trying desperately to make this a “hate” crime.
yeah, who even pays attention to this nonsense anymore?
likely white punks looking for a laugh or blacktivists.
BOTH would recoil and probably pass out in horror if they saw some of the worst things the Klan did.
They have no idea how much times have changed.
They would also recoil and faint if they saw in person what ISIS does.
that is about 1 million times more relevant than what the KKK did 50 years ago.
but if there is so much as a brush fire anywhere within 20 miles of a black church, in the news it goes.
I wonder if the police would investigate Black Lives Matter if they passed out fliers? Probably not.
As of matter of fact, it might have been the BLM group who did this as false flag operation.
Based on the last 10 instances of this stuff, I would start now profiling blacks followed by liberals running for office.
The answer is in the first sentence..............littering.
This isn’t about a 1stA issue, just littering.
Blacks in Chicago shot an average of 57 people every week of the year 2015. Almost all black, of course. And we all know they do essentially the same thing in all our cities across the country.
I say to you without compunction, if the KKK were put in charge of managing our city streets, blacks in Chicago and elsewhere would be MUCH safer.
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