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KKK leaves anti-Luther King fliers in Orange County

Tuesday, 20 January 2015 8:49 AM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 20 January 2015 9:08 AM ]

Some residents in Santa Ana woke up on the MLK Day to find Klu Klux Klan fliers at the driveway.

The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, has left anti-Martin Luther King fliers on the doorsteps of people in an Orange County, California town.

Some residents in the city of Santa Ana on Monday woke up on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to find Klu Klux Klan advertisement fliers insulting King, authorities said.

According to the Santa Ana Police Department, about 40 homes near the 2600 block of North Linwood Street received the fliers along with KKK business cards, placed in plastic bags with a rock and some candy.

The fliers asked people not to commemorate King’s birthday, calling the Nobel Peace Prize winner a “communist pervert.”

A business card in the bags listed contact information for the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, including the white supremacy organization’s hotline and Web address.

“No specific threat was noted on the business card, and no crime can be established at this point,” police said in a statement. “Officers have collected numerous bags, and there will be an investigation.”

“There’s no threats made. It’s just propaganda for their beliefs,” said police spokesman Cpl. Anthony Bertagna, adding that the police are investigating the case as potential “hate incident.”

Also In July, residents in Orange County found similar packages at their doors from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Bertagna said.

Back in November, Ku Klux Klan threatened protesters in Ferguson, Missouri with “lethal force” should the demonstrations against police killing of an unarmed black teenager become violent.

Members of a Missouri-based branch of Klu Klux Klan handed out some threatening fliers reading “You have awakened a sleeping giant” around St. Louis County.

Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK head Frank Ancona said the fliers in Ferguson would educate people on what rights they legally have to use lethal force in self-defense.

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