Fairfax County police investigating after KKK flyers targeting school-board members surface

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. - Fairfax County police are investigating after flyers purporting to be from the Ku Klux Klan surfaced targeting school board members.

Police confirmed for FOX 5 on Thursday that people in the community had tipped them off to flyers turning up in the Sully Police District.

They say about 30 flyers in all were collected in the neighborhood.

The flyers include a string of invective words targeting the Fairfax County school board, and advertise the racist organization’s website, and its podcast.

Authorities investigating after KKK flyers targeting Fairfax County school-board members surface

Fairfax County police are investigating after flyers purporting to be from the Ku Klux Klan surfaced targeting school board members.

The Fairfax County police department provided a statement regarding the discovery of the flyers:

FCPD strives to ensure that Fairfax County remains as one of the safest jurisdictions to live and work. Hateful rhetoric such as this has no place in Fairfax county or anywhere else. Chief Davis has tasked our criminal intelligence unit to lead this effort and although there are no known threats to the school board member, we take these matters very seriously

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