Police seek surveillance video after KKK flyers found in Tarentum, Brackenridge

A Brackenridge woman leapt into action after finding racist flyers in front of her home and up and down her street Saturday morning.

Morgan Huey, 25, said she discovered the flyers with Ku Klux Klan messaging around 8:30 a.m. upon returning to her home in the 900 block of Ninth Avenue after taking her dog to a groomer.

The flyers were in the street, she said.

“I instantly panicked and picked them all up,” she said. “I didn’t want a child to pick that up and read that. They shouldn’t be seeing this kind of stuff.”

Huey and at least a few other residents reported finding the flyers to Tarentum police, who patrol Tarentum and Brackenridge and are now investigating.

The flyers were found in the 700, 800 and 900 blocks of Ninth Avenue.

Images of the flyers Huey shared online claim they are from the Trinity White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

One was headed with “Reparations for Whites,” while another claimed to be from a neighborhood watch with the statement, “You can sleep sound tonight, the Klan is AWAKE; Report Crime & Drug Dealers.”

They featured a P.O. Box address in Aberdeen, Ohio and five phone numbers for “realms” in various states, including Pennsylvania.

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Trinity White Knights as “a small and struggling faction of the Ku Klux Klan in Kentucky” that is latching onto talk of mass deportations by conservative elected officials to distribute racist propaganda, sow fear in communities and gain media attention.

Its leader, William Bader, was cited for littering in February after being caught throwing flyers from his vehicle in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati, according to the law center.

In March, Bader was found guilty of directing others to litter the papers, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Huey said she bought her Brackenridge home in 2021. She said there are many children on her street, which she described as diverse.

“It was surreal to see. It’s something you don’t want to see in your neighborhood,” she said. “We don’t need this in our neighborhood. We’re all close and all good with each other. It was scary to see that in our neighborhood.”

Tarentum police are asking for anyone with camera footage of the person or persons distributing the flyers in Tarentum and Brackenridge to contact them at 412-473-3056.

Huey has a doorbell camera, but said it was hard to see anything from it.

Those who find the flyers can throw them away, police said.

“I hope they find who did it,” Huey said. “We don’t need somebody like that in our community.”