KKK Fliers Littering Forest Lakes

The residents of the Forest Lakes subdivision off of Dogwood Road found fliers promoting the Ku Klux Klan strewn about their properties Friday morning.

The Charleston County Sheriff's Office is investigating, and advises any residents who receive the fliers to discard them as the office already has "numerous pieces of evidence," according to a CCSO statement.

The black-and-white flier features a drawing of a hooded KKK member doing the Uncle Sam "I want you" finger point above the words "Neighborhood Watch," and includes the phrase "You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake." The fliers were distributed by the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, one of five Klan groups active in South Carolina, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Sheriff's Office investigators ask anyone who noticed suspicious people or vehicles in the Forest Lakes subdivision Thursday night to call CCSO at 843-202-1700 or Crime Stoppers at 843-554-1111.

In March similar KKK flyers turned up in two other nearby neighborhoods, and last December KKK literature also began showing up in neighborhoods in Ladson and Hanahan.

The SPLC lists the KKK as a hate group, and has identified at least 27 hate groups operating in South Carolina.