North Carolina Police Chief Has a Message For Whoever Left a 'Racist' Flyer In His Lawn: 'When You Try to Intimidate Me I Take It Seriously

According to a North Carolina police chief, the Ku Klux Klan left a racist note on several lawns in his neighborhood, and the group specifically targeted him.

Fayetteville Police Chief Harold Medlock told WTVD-TV that a plastic bag was left on a few lawns in his neighborhood that included a KKK recruiting flyer, a piece of candy and a Confederate flag. Other flyers were left on the lawns of a bi-racial family and a 68-year-old black woman.

"When you start trying to intimidate people I take that seriously. When you try to intimidate me I take that seriously," Medlock, who is white, told WTVD. "If they've got a problem with me, I'll be happy to meet them anytime, anywhere and we'll discuss their issues with me."

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"It's intimidation, or it's an attempt to intimidate people. I'm not going to be intimidated," he said.

Medlock speculated that the flyers were distributed in light of recent racial tensions nationwide and encouraged anyone who had received a flyer to turn it over to the police. His department's forensics team, he said, is attempting to find fingerprints on the recruitment materials in order to pinpoint who is responsible. The address included with the flyers is "bogus," WTVD reported.

The black resident told WTVD off-camera that she was outraged by the flyer as she had grown up with "this kind of hatred."

As only a select few people received the flyers in the neighborhood, it's unclear exactly how many homes were targeted with the material.

(H/T: WTVD-TV)