KKK recruitment flyers found on cars in Warren County

This KKK recruitment flyer was found on the windshield of several citizens who parked at the Park and Ride lot north of Front Royal on Monday.

WARREN COUNTY – Several commuters who park in the Warren County Park and Ride lot on Route 522 north of Front Royal found an unpleasant surprise on their windshields Monday afternoon.

Upon returning to their cars at the end of the work day, many found recruitment flyers from the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK, placed upon their windshields.

The KKK, the nation’s oldest hate group, has chiefly targeted black Americans, but has also attacked Jews, immigrants, gays and lesbians and, until recently, Catholics, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Lt. C.E. Bockey, spokesman for the Warren County Sheriff’s Department, said in a phone interview Tuesday that a deputy had been dispatched after the department received calls from several citizens who had found the KKK flyers on their vehicle windshields. All of the flyers were placed on vehicles in the Park and Ride lot located on U.S. Route 522.  No other Park and Ride locations have had reports of flyers being left on vehicles.

Front Royal Police Captain Jason Ryman said Tuesday evening that there had been no reports of KKK flyers found within the town limits.