MOORESTOWN TWP. — After fliers soliciting enlistment in the Ku Klux Klan were found in Cinnaminson and Maple Shade, officials in Moorestown are now reporting a similar discovery.
According to CBS3, Moorestown police Chief Lee Lieber said Monday that a woman walking her dog found a flier similar to the ones previously discovered in the other Burlington County communities.
“Love your race” and “Stop homosexuality and race mixing,” were among the phrases found on the handful of pamphlets discovered Sunday in Cinnaminson and Maple Shade.
The messages were contained in plastic baggies and, according to the report, likely tossed into yards. The report adds that police believe the incidents are linked, but at this don’t feel that specific residents are being targeted.
Cinnaminson Police Lt. Tim Young told NJ Advance Media on Monday that the area code for the phone number on the pamphlet that recipients were encouraged to call wasn’t from this area.
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Asked if authorities believed any local hate groups could allegedly be behind the leafleting, Young said he didn’t think that was the case. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual survey of national hate groups found a “racist music” distribution label located in Maple Shade and alleged skinhead chapter in nearby Haddon Township, Camden County.
Jeanetta Warren, vice president of the Southern Burlington County Chapter of the NAACP, said in a statement that the leaflets have “absolutely no place in our community, or any community.”
“The Southern Burlington County Chapter of the NAACP condemns it fully and urges local leaders in the region and throughout the state — from all ethnic, political, and religious backgrounds — to do the same forcefully. Clearly, the fight for civil rights is not over in New Jersey,” the statement continued.
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