White supremacist banners had been just lately displayed on a pedestrian walkway in Walnut Creek, disturbing native residents and metropolis officers.
The banners reportedly displayed slogans comparable to “It is OK to be pro-white” and “White Lives Matter,” NBC Bay Space reported. “White Lives Matter” as a slogan was first circulated by neo-Nazi teams in a backlash towards the Black Lives Matter motion, based on the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart.
“It was like a intestine punch to show a nook and see that,” resident Maya Borgueta advised NBC.
This comes simply weeks after antisemitic leaflets had been discovered scattered by neighborhoods on the Harmony-Walnut Creek border. Walnut Creek Metropolis Councilman Kevin Wilk, who denounced the leaflets discovered final month, was additionally upset concerning the banners.
“Being Jewish myself, and the one councilmember who’s even been Jewish in Walnut Creek and seeing issues in our yard … how does this occur?” Wilk advised NBC.
Walnut Creek is house to a few of the Bay Space’s energetic white nationalist hate teams. The town was additionally identified for demonstrations on the El Curtola overpass above Freeway 24 denying the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.
Walnut Creek’s mayor, Matt Francois, advised NBC that “such a messaging isn’t welcome in Walnut Creek,” and that town doesn’t tolerate hate speech.
“It is completely a hate crime,” Francois advised NBC. “These are the sort of issues hate crime was made for, as a result of even freedom of speech has limitations.”
Police are investigating the incident, based on NBC.
