Ku Klux Klan propaganda found on several California lawns
Propaganda led to a voicemail referencing the Charleston shooting
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Your support makes all the difference.Several residents in a city just southwest of Los Angeles woke up this weekend to find Ku Klux Klan propaganda on their front lawns, another troubling incident as the US struggles to deal with racism.
People in an eight-block radius within Whittier, California on Sunday found a KKK fliers inside plastic bags, according to the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles. The bags were weighed down by Tootsie Rolls and small rocks.
The KKK flier did not include any threats, but displayed a phone number that led to a voicemail referencing the Charleston church shooting that left nine black parishioners dead at the hands of a vocal white supremacist.
“I opened [the bag] and it happened to have a Tootsie Roll and two rocks and this awful, awful letter,” resident Stella Paquin told the NBC affiliate. “It was very discriminatory.”
Last week, hundreds of similar bags were found in two neighborhoods in Fullerton and other KKK fliers have been found in Santa Ana and Orange, all cities in California.
The Charleston shooting has flamed a massive debate on race relations in the US, including an effort to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State House.
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