KKK Fliers Distributed In Haymarket: Police

HAYMARKET, VA—Hate-espousing pamphlets under the imprimatur of the Klu Klux Klan were found at the end of driveways in the Haymarket area Sunday, May 5, according to Prince William County Police. The KKK recruitment pamphlets, inside plastic bags weighed down by bird seed, were seemingly thrown at random along James Madison Highway in the early morning hours.

No suspicious people or vehicles were reported in the area at the time, and a homeowner alerted police to the pamphlets. They didn't contain any threats and didn't appear to specifically target anyone in the neighborhood. No property damage was reported.

Similar incidents occurred last July in the Gainesville and Bristow areas, and also in April 2018 in the Triangle area. Again, those pamphlets didn't contain any threats, and didn't appear to target anyone specific who lives in the area. Similar incidents have occurred relatively recently in Leesburg, Ashburn and Fredericksburg. The incident in Fredericksburg happened on Martin Luther King Day.

There's little authorities can legally do. Leesburg Police said they received complaints from several people, but inasmuch that there were no threatening messages in the bags, they were protected by free speech. In Frederickburg's incidents, a spokesman said whoever left the fliers could be charged with misdemeanor littering but that's about it.

Several similar incidents have happened across the country, include one last spring in Texas, where recruiting fliers for the Klan were disguised in a bag of candy and distributed to 17 homes in Texas City. Tucked inside the plastic bags of candy was a message written in bold black letters from the Loyal White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan that read: "Help save our race! Join the best or die like the rest" and "Say No To Cultural Genocide."