Ku Klux Klan flyers scattered across northern Indiana
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- “Stunned, shocked, sick. It’s very disturbing,” that is the first reaction from South Bend resident, Pam Wilfing, after seeing Ku Klux Klan flyers dispersed across her neighborhood.
Flyer found in South Bend neighborhood.
The papers were found Monday morning in multiple South Bend areas including Erskine Park area. The bottom of the flyers claim they are from the Trinity White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a Kentucky based chapter of the KKK.
When another resident, Karen Thomas, first saw the flyers, she thought they were trash.
“Oh, somebody’s trash broke open, and I went out to go pick it up and I realized it is trash in more than one way,” said Thomas.
She went onto say while opinions are allowed to be shared, she believes messages like the flyers are not the way they should be expressed.
“There is no room in our county, our state, our community for attitudes like this… This country is built on immigration and yes, there should be a legal pathway to this, but this is not the way to go about solving this problem. There are more peaceful and just ways of doing it. This just seems very hateful,” said Thomas.
ABC57 received an email Monday afternoon that claimed to be the Trinity White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. They said they were responsible for distributing thousands of the flyers across 11 Indiana cities Sunday night.
Those cities include Valparaiso, Michigan City, South Bend, Elkhart, Goshen, Plymouth, Warsaw, Rochester, Westfield, Carmel, and Fishers.