White Supremacist Posters Seen In Kirkland

KIRKLAND, WA - A white supremacist group put up posters in Kirkland over the weekend, and the city has referred the matter to federal officials. The same white supremacist group has put up posters in other Puget Sound cities, including Bellevue and Gig Harbor.

Jesse Zook Mann, a Seattle-based documentary film maker, posted photos of the posters on Saturday evening. The posters proclaim, "Keep America American," and some of the posters call immigrants "criminals." They are signed by a group called Patriot Front.

That same group dropped a banner off an overpass in Bellevue last November. The group plastered posters on light poles along main streets in Gig Harbor around that same time. According to the group's Twitter page, Patriot Front members have put up posters in cities across the U.S. over the last week, from Worcester, Mass., to Avila Beach, Calif.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Patriot Front was founded by an 18-year-old neo-Nazi from Texas. SPLC described the group as, "a blend of traditional white-supremacist ideology, alt-right sensibilities and activism, and militia-style armed insurrection."

Kirkland spokeswoman Kellie Stickney said the city did get at least one complaint about the posters.

"At this time we are investigating it with assistance from our federal law enforcement partners," Stickney wrote in an email.

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