KKK Flyers Reportedly Distributed in Paulding Neighborhoods

Paulding County authorities are investigating recent reports of Ku Klux Klan flyers being distributed at neighborhoods in the western part of the county.

CBS 46 reported the Paulding County Sheriff’’s Office has notified the FBI in regards to the “The KKK Wants You” flyers allegedly being left in neighborhoods along Buchanan Highway.

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Neighbor Newspapers reported a North Carolina-based group was named on some of the pamphlets. A man who said he was the leader of the Georgia chapter of the so-called Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan told the newspaper the flyers were distributed to recruit members “because it’s our constitutional right to do it.”

It is not illegal to distribute such flyers, the sheriff’s office said, but some residents aren’t too happy about it.

One homeowner who received a flyer told the TV station,. “It’s very shocking and it’s not something you’re happy to see, but we just threw it away and kind of ignored it,” he said.

It was at least the second time KKK flyers had been distributed in metro neighborhoods this summer.

Flyers, reportedly from a North Carolina group, were found at homes in southern Rockdale County, prompting the sheriff there to call it “very disturbing, especially in the wake of the tragedy in Charleston.”