Just Hate
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Last week I was
informed that some very anti Jewish literature had been
left in driveways along Ford Road. One neighbor gave me
the one left in their driveway and I picked up several
others in other driveways and along the road.
The eight page flyer was inside a baggy with a small rock in it. Apparently, someone was just driving around throwing them out their car window. I don't know what other neighborhoods might have gotten the flyers but apparently, several neighborhoods in west Knoxville got them too. The entire flyer was attacks on the Jews but the last page was in my opinion, child pornography. I will not publish any of it here. If you received the flyer, you might let the sheriff's office know. They were tossed out either the night of the 24 or morning of the 25th. Whoever was throwing them out might be on a security camera somewhere. Anti-Semitic
flyers left at homes in Knoxville, police investigating,
officials say
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Knoxville Police Department and Knox County Sheriff’s Office are investigating after people in West Knoxville and Knox County reported finding anti-Semitic flyers left at their homes. Scott Erland with the Knoxville Police Department said the agency is aware of the flyers and had seen pictures of the flyers circulating online. Similarly, Kimberly Glenn with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office said two deputies had gone to one of the homes affected and picked up the flyers. The flyers themselves make anti-Semitic claims about immigration, the Biden administration and the LGBTQ+ community, according to pictures sent in by WVLT News viewers.
Both agencies are asking for reports of more
incidents. The Knoxville Police Department
non-emergency line is 865-215-4010. Glenn asked that
reports to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office go to
865-215-2243.
‘There’s no room for that’: West Knoxville
father speaks out against
anti-Semitic flyers
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Antisemitic messages were being spread across parts of West Knox County this week. A Knoxville father taking his son to school on Monday morning came across a startling discovery in his driveway. “I noticed a bag in the driveway with flyers in it and when I opened it up, they were all flyers of hate speech,” Wes Human said. “Antisemitic propaganda.”
The bags were scattered across a quiet
neighborhood in the Cedar Bluff area,
which angered both Human and his
neighbors.
“They had seen them and they were equally upset and we just don’t want that here in our neighborhood,” Human said. “There’s no place for it anywhere and especially when it comes to your neighborhood.” Human said that he can not fathom why anybody would do such a thing in a neighborhood filled with kids.
“As much as we see
equality and want to bring everybody
together, there’s still people out
there that are trying to spread
hate,” Human said.
Human emphasized his
sorrow for those responsible.
“You have this much hate that you put this much effort into doing something like this just to spread hate when you could take that hate and do so many other things with it,” Human said.
Officials with the Knox County
Sheriff’s Office and the Knoxville
Police Department said that they are
currently looking into this matter.
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