Authorities are investigating after several Ku Klux Klan recruitment fliers turned up on lawns in one New Jersey town over the weekend.
Lyndhurst Police Chief James O'Connor says the fliers were tossed in front of homes in a plastic bag with pebbles inside, presumably so the bags wouldn't fly away.
He said police received five complaints.
The three-page fliers ask people to join the KKK and feature anti-Latino and anti-gay statements. They list a web address and a phone number for a group in North Carolina.
One of the families that received the KKK flier said they were horrified.
"It is completely unacceptable. Disgusting, outrageous," said Sara Salkind, who received a flier on the doorstep of the home where she, her husband Steve and their biracial children live.
"I am appalled and I can't believe in this day and age, something like this could exist," said Salkind, who is Jewish.
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Her husband Steve Post said he thought at first it was a prank.
O'Connor said there is no known KKK activity in Lyndhurst. He said the group believed to be behind the flier dumps has dropped the pamphlets in other communities in the past to get attention. Last year, similar fliers were found on the lawns of homes on Long Island.
"I would tell you there's no active faction of the KKK here, there's no one that I know of that believes in their beliefs or their values," he said.
Salkind agreed, saying Lyndhurst is not a racist community and their recruitment flier won't work here. She made a point of ripping up the flier: "This is what I think of this type of activity in this community."
The NAACP didn't immediately respond to a call.
Police said there's nothing illegal in the fliers, so the person behind it won't face any charges. They're asking residents to do with the fliers what they'd do with any garbage: just throw it away.
