Historic Black Community Hit With KKK Flyers Weeks After Neo-Nazi Standoff

A historic Black town in Ohio was hit with Ku Klux Klan flyers weeks after residents had to confront a group of neo-Nazis displaying swastikas and shouting racial slurs.

On Sunday (February 23), dozens of flyers from the Trinity White Knights Ku Klux Klan were found scattered across Lincoln Heights, an area widely known as the first all-Black, self-governing city north of the Mason-Dixon Line, per WLWT.

47-year-old William Bader was ticketed for littering after he was seen throwing the flyers from his car. Following a search of his vehicle, police said they found more flyers, a white sheet "commonly worn by KKK members," and a banner that was hung on an overpass following the Lincoln Heights neo-Nazi confrontation earlier this month.

The KKK flyers came after a February 7 rally where roughly a dozen neo-Nazis wore all-black clothing and red face masks as they waved swastika flags along a highway overpass between Evendale and Lincoln Heights. The group also brandished a sign that read "America for the White Man."

Lincoln Heights residents confronted the neo-Nazi group, prompting members to back up and flee the scene.

Neither of the two February incidents resulted in criminal charges.

“The Sheriff’s Office does not condone nor agree with hate speech that is proliferated by anyone, including Nazis and the KKK,” Hamilton County Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey said in a statement. “The sheriff’s office remains committed to working with the residents in the village of Lincoln Heights to ensure their safety.”

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