Missouri's local chapter of the KKK is distributing flyers in the St. Louis metro area threatening protesters with "lethal force." The flyer indicates that they believe that the protesters have threatened police officers and their families.
From Vice News:
Members of a Missouri-based KKK chapter have been distributing fliers in the St. Louis metro area and on social media promising to use "lethal force" against Ferguson protesters they say have threatened police officers and their families.
In the flier, the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan refer to the protesters as "terrorists" masquerading as peaceful, and says that they have "awakened a sleeping giant."
"You have been warned by the Ku Klux Klan!" the flier exclaims. "There will be consequences for your acts of violence against the peaceful, law-abiding citizens of Missouri."
Also, from Vice News:
"These Ferguson protesters are the best recruiters since Obama," Ancona remarked to the Riverfront Times this week, adding that he has inducted 50 new Klansmen this month alone. "Normally we might hear from 10 people a week in Missouri, and now we're hearing from more like 50 people a week. Sometimes, depending on these news stories, we get 100, 200 calls in a day."
But others question the Klan's assertion that the protests had resulted in hundreds of calls from potential recruits, suggesting instead that the group is boasting in order to hide its declining influence.