Ku Klux Klan recruiter caught on surveillance video
LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Here’s what a Ku Klux Klan recruiter looks like. Or, at least, this is what someone looks like trying to stir the pot in downtown Lafayette for the second time in as many years.
Either way, Lafayette’s security camera footage at Sixth and Main streets — secured through an open records request –— shows a lone man dropping materials for the Ku Klux Klan in front of downtown businesses early Tuesday.
The camera picks up a man, dressed in jeans, tennis shoes and a dark, hooded jacket, coming up Sixth Street from Columbia Street, before walking up and down two blocks of Main Street.
As he passes one store, McCord Candies, he casually tosses something in front of the shop’s door, never breaking stride as he heads west down the street.
Business owners reported receiving resealable plastic sandwich bags containing a 4-by-5-inch flier blasting Jewish people and U.S. immigration policy – “Wake up white America!!!,” it read – and two business cards with telephone numbers and a website for the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, based in Pelham, North Carolina.
Each bag contained a rock to weigh it down.
The cameras at Sixth and Main streets recorded the time as 3:19 a.m.
The KKK fliers were reminiscent of another late-night distribution in January 2018 in the same blocks on Main Street.
Here’s a look at the person in that case, based on footage obtained from the same city-owned security cameras.
In both cases, no one has stepped forward to identify themselves as the person in the video.
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