White supremacist propaganda continues to spread across Southern California. Flyers have now been found on storefronts and buildings in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach.
Posted overnight, the flyers appear to be hand-written, according to the Long Beach Post, and the slogan “the 14 Words,” is repeated. It means a need to secure the future for “white children.”
“I’m extremely disheartened that somebody used our community as a platform to spread hate,” Councilman Al Austin, who represents the Bixby Knolls area told LB Post.
A surveillance video captured a person posting a flyer over a Black Lives Matter poster.
Similar flyers promoting white supremacy have also been found in recent days, in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach.
Police say the flyers began showing up the night after Long Beach City Council approved a proposal to turn the Long Beach Convention Center into an emergency shelter for migrant children arriving from Mexico.
At the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, local governments throughout the nation are being asked to provide temporary facilities for unaccompanied migrant children while they are reconnected with family members or sponsors. Federal officials say existing Border Patrol facilities are overcrowded.
In response to that request, Long Beach city officials explored potential sites and determined the convention center could provide housing, food, recreational and other services to children in need.