Police are investigating after plastic baggage full of fliers containing hate messages and conspiracy theories have been thrown onto residential driveways in Fresno Friday morning.
Residents in a suburban neighborhood discovered the luggage and reported them to authorities, the Fresno Police Division mentioned in a press release. Police canvassed the neighborhood — which authorities didn’t establish — to take away any extra fliers and seek for any properties or companies that might have helpful video surveillance.
The recovered fliers don’t comprise “direct threats to any members of our group,” authorities mentioned, however reasonably “common hate propaganda and unfounded conspiracy theories.”
“That is at present being investigated as a hate incident,” the division mentioned in its assertion.
Police didn’t disclose the fliers’ contents, however The Fresno Bee reported they contained antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic rhetoric.
That is removed from the primary sudden look of hate-filled and antisemitic fliers in California. Current years have seen such fliers anonymously littered or posted in communities together with Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Redlands, in addition to in Orange County.
Anybody with details about this newest incident is inspired to contact the Fresno Police Division at (559) 621-7000.
