black house hunter spots Klan application/Confederate placemat and police uniform

[Demovictory9]

A black man was about to buy a cop’s house. Then, he found a KKK application in a bedroom.

The Confederate flag place mat on the dining room table was Rob Mathis’s first hint that something was off inside the home he was thinking of buying.

“I thought to myself, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if this was a Klansman’s house?’” said Mathis, who is black.

Previously, Mathis and his wife, Reyna, had been ready to make an offer on the five-bedroom home they viewed on Wednesday in Holton, Mich., a small township of less than 3,000 people in Muskegon County. They thought the house on the 22-acre wooded lot about an hour outside of Grand Rapids, Mich., would give them enough space to entertain their children and grandchildren. Then, Mathis walked into the NASCAR-decorated garage to see not one but two Confederate flags in what his wife would tell him was the home of a police officer, MLive reported.

When the family and their real estate agent went upstairs to check out one of the bedrooms, Mathis and his son noticed a lone wooden plaque holding an aged, yellowed document. Once the father and son got closer, they were disgusted to realize what they were looking at: an application to the Ku Klux Klan.

“I said, ‘Oh my God, let’s go and get out of here right now,’ ” said Mathis, an Army veteran, in an interview with WZZM.

Walking through a home of a police officer with KKK memorabilia rattled Mathis, who struggled to grapple with what he’d seen in the “Klan house.”


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In response, Muskegon announced on Thursday that the police department had opened an internal investigation “after a social media post was brought to our attention accusing an officer of being in possession of certain items associated with a white supremacy group.” The local government wrote in a Facebook post that the police officer was “immediately placed on administrative leave, pending a thorough investigation.”

The home’s owner was identified by local media as Charles Anderson, a 48-year-old white officer.

“The City of Muskegon requests your patience as we thoroughly investigate this issue,” the city said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/09/black-man-michigan-cop-kkk-house-suspension/


The discovery of Anderson’s racist collection has cast new light on a nearly decade-old fatal shooting. Anderson was pursuing 23-year-old Julius Johnson during a traffic stop on Sept. 23, 2009. According to the findings of an investigation from the county’s prosecutor, Johnson beat Anderson in the head, which caused the police officer, who said he feared for his life, to shoot and kill the black man. Johnson’s sister, Tunisia Phillips, initially told investigators that she heard her brother beg for his life before Anderson shot him, according to WOOD.

[irisblue]

1. This will be interesting follow up

[superpatriotman]

2. Western Michigan is loaded with right wing nuts

Lots of phonies.

[dalton99a]

3. The KKK officer:

Officer Charles Anderson of the Muskegon Police Department gives his testimony at the Muskegon County Hall of Justice, in Muskegon on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. (Kayla Renie | MLive.com)

[OMGWTF]

4. Someone on the radio about 20 years ago said racists were encouraged to be cops

so they could freely murder black people.

[llmart]

5. There are plenty of racist, KKK loving idiots here in Michigan...

especially "Up North".

[yaesu]

7. I agree 100%. They have a loooong history of KKK in that area. nt

[yaesu]

6. The same town they found a bunch of 1930's KKK items in an attic back in the 80's or early 90's

They auctioned them off and there was quite a controversy about it at the time. I have driven through that tiny town quite a few times over the years.