KY white supremacy group posts anti-immigrant, homophobic flyers in Indiana
A Kentucky-based white supremacy group posted flyers in an Indiana neighborhood this month, the latest in a string of similar incidents in recent years.
Anti-immigrant and homophobic flyers produced by the Dry Ridge-based Trinity White Knights popped up June 4 at Rhodius Park in Indianapolis, according to Mirror Indy, a nonprofit news outlet that covers the city about 190 miles northwest of Lexington.
The Trinity White Knights was founded in 2012 as an extension of the Ku Klux Klan.
Members placed similar anti-immigrant flyers in Hamilton County, Ohio, over the past two years, as well as in Covington, in Northern Kentucky, last fall. Those flyers directed prospective members to a P.O. box in Maysville.
The group also posted flyers in Lexington’s Kenwick neighborhood in 2023.
Local prosecutors have noted the group is protected under the First Amendment, though residents have widely decried the flyers, including an Indianapolis resident who described them as “pure ignorance.”
The group’s founder, William Bader, 47, was cited for littering in Lincoln Heights, Ohio, in February 2024. Police were contacted after residents noticed him placing flyers in their area, according to the Cincinnati TV station WLWT.
