{"id":478341,"date":"2026-10-27T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478341\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:20:11","slug":"el-paso-leaders-condemn-viral-kkk-video-as-police-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478341\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso leaders condemn viral KKK video as police investigate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A viral video that appears to show a group of people dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes and yelling racist obscenities is sparking outrage and widespread condemnation in\u00a0El Paso<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The video shows more than half a dozen people dressed in KKK-style white robes and hoods walking through an El Paso neighborhood at night. Several in the group can be heard laughing when a male voice suddenly prompts them to say something together.<\/p>\n

\u201cY\u2019all\u00a0gotta yell something, g\u00fcey. As a team, yell something, g\u00fcey,\u201d the person says.<\/p>\n

In response, several people shout a racial slur in unison.<\/p>\n

\u201cY\u2019all\u00a0gotta keep yelling it, g\u00fcey,\u201d the original speaker says.<\/p>\n

At another point in the video, a second male voice can briefly be heard saying he hates Black people while using a racial slur.<\/p>\n

The video has drawn widespread condemnation from locals and has prompted an investigation by El Paso<\/a> police, who say those in the video appear to be \u201cyoung people.\u201d Numerous social media posts suggest the group may have been teens attending a Halloween party.<\/p>\n

\u201cSymbols and language associated with the Ku Klux Klan represent a history of terror, violence and racial hatred. They have no place in our community,\u201d El Paso Police Chief Peter\u00a0Pacillas said<\/a> in a statement on Monday, October 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cTreating that history as a costume or a joke is unacceptable and contrary to the values of respect and safety that define El Paso,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The chief added that free speech has limits when it \u201cthreatens public order or the safety of others.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Veronica\u00a0Escobar, El Paso\u2019s Democratic congresswoman, condemned the group\u2019s actions, calling it \u201cdeeply disturbing and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo El\u00a0Pasoan is too young to understand that racism has no place in our community,\u201d Escobar said Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s next? When are we going to speak out? When the nooses come out? When the ropes come out? When the\u00a0lynchings start? Enough is enough!\u201d Dwyer said.<\/p>\n

But others took to social media to say that El Paso has bigger things to worry about than kids in racist costumes. A local Facebook page called \u201cEl Paso 915 no nonsense conversation<\/a>,\u201d which shares news from across the Borderland, criticized local leaders as well as the local newspaper, the El Paso Times, for putting the issue over other stories, such as recent flash floods<\/a> that prompted residents in at least one neighborhood to evacuate their homes over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cTreating it like the second coming of the 1920s Klan is media and political theater,\u201d El Paso 915 said, while adding that the teens\u2019 behavior was nonetheless \u201cinappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the NAACP countered assertions that racism is a thing of the past in El Paso. NAACP member and pastor, Michael\u00a0E. Grady, of the Prince of Peace Christian Fellowship church, compared the racism that allegedly drove kids to don Klan costumes with the same rhetoric that drew a mass shooter to an El Paso Walmart on August 3, 2019. Grady\u2019s own daughter was one of 45 people shot during the massacre. She survived while 23 others died.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shooter drove over 900 miles because of what he heard and what he saw and that he was\u00a0gonna cleanse up the border with this infestation,\u201d Grady told KTSM 9 News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dwyer pointed to a more recent incident where two Black girls were \u201cattacked and assaulted” at Pebble Hills High School on the Far East side of El Paso earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot tell me that these incidents are not connected,\u201d Dwyer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A viral video that appears to show a group of people dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,847,2320,820],"class_list":["post-478341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-mysanews","tag-mysasotx","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478341","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=478341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}