Some northwest Georgia residents found recruitment fliers for the Ku Klux Klan in their neighborhoods this week, according to a media report.
The fliers cited alleged threats to kill white people and police officers, and included website addresses and a 24-hour hotline number, the Rome News-Tribune reported.
“Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers are telling followers to kill white people and police officers in the name of justice for the killing of (black people) by policemen in the line of duty,” the flier read.
Two recent videotaped shooting deaths of black men at the hands of police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota sparked a national conversation on race and led to days of demonstrations in Atlanta and other cities. A lone gunman killed five officers at the end of a peaceful protest in Dallas.
Tamala Jackson, a black woman who received the flier in her driveway in Floyd County, about 55 miles northwest of Atlanta, said she knew she was not being targeted because her white neighbors also received the flier, according to the report. But the fact that the fliers were distributed at night bothered her.
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