Flyers linked to a Texas-based white supremacy network were distributed in a Northwest Side neighborhood near Jefferson High School.<\/p>\n
Residents said the flyers appeared Sunday in the Jefferson Terrace area near\u00a0Babcock Road and St. Cloud and were distributed across a broad stretch of the neighborhood, according to a Reddit post. The drop spanned about a mile.<\/p>\n
In a statement Wednesday, District 7 Councilwoman Marina Alderete Gavito said \u201cNazi propaganda belongs in the trash\u00a0\u2014 not in our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n
One resident, who asked to be identified only as Esther, said a flyer was found in her driveway early Sunday afternoon on Easter.<\/p>\n
Her ring camera didn\u2019t pick up who left it.<\/p>\n
It was raining at the time, and potential witnesses were likely at church or celebrating Easter indoors. The flyer was wrapped in a plastic sandwich bag.<\/p>\n
The flyer displayed logos that match imagery identified by the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Hate on Display database as belonging to the Aryan Freedom Network.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0ADL describes the group as a white supremacist organization that originated in Texas, noting its logo includes a Waffen SS-style shield and a Totenkopf skull surrounded by a laurel.<\/p>\n
Esther said she immediately recognized it as a white supremacist group based on the fonts and wording.<\/p>\n
The wording is designed to create division, Esther said, using references to \u201cpedophiles\u201d and \u201cgroomers\u201d to target members of the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is their M.O. of course who is going to side with the pedos (pedophiles) and groomers?\u201d she\u00a0said. \u201cAFN considers the LGBTQ community as pedos and predators, so that\u2019s their hook to get traffic to their website and target the gullible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Residents who discussed the flyers online described the neighborhood as diverse in culture, religion and ethnicity and said the propaganda was unwelcome.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the first time Neo Nazi propaganda has been found in the San Antonio area.<\/p>\n
In August, a tip led Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office to find a man who had boxes of white supremacist\u00a0pamphlets along with weapons and grenades in various stages of completion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Letters found in the man\u2019s far northern Bexar County home and truck were determined to be correspondence with known white supremacists, including another person who had been arrested for conspiring to attack Baltimore\u2019s power grid, and others arrested for violent hate- and race-related crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flyers linked to a Texas-based white supremacy network were distributed in a Northwest Side neighborhood near Jefferson High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-241444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}