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WLOS — ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- A disturbing flier showed up overnight on the windshield of a car parked in Asheville on Tuesday.
The flier shows what appears to a be a Ku Klux Klan klansman, and asks people to "join the fight."
It addresses "white brothers and sisters" and calls for white workers to "unite for race."
There was a phone number on the paper. News 13 called the number on Wednesday, and it went straight to a voicemail box for the North Carolina Patriot Brigade of the Knights of the KKK.
The family that found the flier on their car Tuesday morning didn't want to talk and said they were afraid of retaliation.
Experts said activity among those groups has been picking up over the last two years.
"We have a black president and that black president represents, in a sense, the 'browning' of the American population," Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Senior Fellow, said. "The idea that whites are expected to lose their majority in this country in the next thirty years or so, that idea, that fear among the Klan groups is what is helping them, to some extent, thrive."
Potok said there is a very good chance, because there was just one of these flyers reported in the neighborhood, that it wasn't distributed by an actual Klansman, but printed out by a supporter.
Asheville Police said this type of fliering by any group isn't a crime, and they haven't seen any other reports of incidents like this one.
Potok suggested if you do get one of these fliers to let police know, just so officers can understand that they may have a Klan presence in the neighborhood.
LEXINGTON, Va. -
People from all over Lexington unite in song at Hopkins Green after KKK leaflets were found in driveways and yards earlier this month.
The flyers mention "White Pride" and "White Power", then encourages others to join the Ku Klux Klan.
We spoke with a woman who found several of them on Jackson Avenue and Whitmore Street. She asked that we didn't use her name.
"It frightened me because I didn't want our children to see it," said the Lexington resident. "I think it encourages bad thoughts. I think it divides us."
Pastor Lyndon Sayers helped organize the rally.
They said they plan to form a group to educate others on the importance of diversity.
The Lexington Police Department is currently looking for whoever distributed the flyers.
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HOUMA, La. -- A message some say promotes hate and others claim is simply about pride has filtered into Houma neighborhoods through fliers distributed by a Texas-based white supremacist group.
The Patriotic Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan put out the fliers over the weekend in areas including Summerfield and Mulberry.
James Dawson, the Patriotic Brigade's national director, said in an email that the fliers were part of a recruitment drive involving 17 states. The group puts out fliers several times a year, he added.
Dawson said the most recent distribution was in protest of the Black Lives Matter movement, New Black Panther Party and recent shootings of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
The fliers aren't meant to intimidate anyone, Dawson said, just provide information for people who want "White Christian Revival and to preserve our heritage."
Houma Police Chief Dana Coleman said his department received complaints regarding the fliers and is investigating.
"We take all complaints seriously," he said. "We're looking at all aspects and the manner they were distributed. Our detective bureau is looking into it to see if there are any violations."
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