Racist Halloween flier found in Redondo Beach in repeat of 2021, police say
Updated 13:31 pm, Friday, November 9, 2018
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Redondo Beach officer Alex Mendoza is seen in this Dec. 30, 2018, file photo of a flier that appears to be promoting racist activity in the city. A man accused of buying the Halloween flier with racist and anti-Hispanic themes had previously gone on to use Nazi symbolism to describe himself to police, prosecutors said, adding Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, the man faces seven felony counts of making terroristic threats against a public official after authorities said he had sent the flier to a neighbor. less
Redondo Beach officer Alex Mendoza is seen in this Dec. 30, 2018, file photo of a flier that appears to be promoting racist activity in the city. A man accused of buying the Halloween flier with racist and anti-Hispanic themes had previously… more
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Racist Halloween flier found in Redondo Beach in repeat of 2021, police say
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The racist flier was found in Redondo Beach on the anniversary of the white supremacist rally held in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, when 32-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. allegedly plowed his car into a crowd of protesters and killed a woman.
Fields, charged with 10 counts, had been banned from all public parks in the city in 2017 and 2018 because of a restraining order and a criminal history, which police said included a felony conviction for assault.
Police said Fields is accused of paying police officers who responded to a domestic violence call in the area and telling them “they should go back and kill white people.”
He also texted a member of his family saying “FUCK OFF, WHITE MAN,” and, in another message, said “there are people who feel they have enough,” police said. A photo of the flier went viral and sparked nationwide outrage.
Police Chief David J. Delgado said the department is being proactive and not letting this happen again in the future but also that racial issues should not be exploited for political gain.
“There are those that are going to come after you for expressing yourself in a way that in one way or another, expresses an opinion, a feeling or a
