Florida Man Claiming to Be KKK Member Threatened to Lynch Local NAACP President, Police Said

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Police said a man claiming to be KKK member threatened to lynch a Florida NAACP president

A man has been arrested on hate crime charges after threatening to lynch the president of a Florida NAACP chapter, police said.

Ronald Morris Wadford, 75, was arrested Thursday on a warrant for two counts of aggravated stalking, according to jail and court records from the Gainesville Police Department, The Gainesville Sun reported.

Wadford allegedly called Evelyn Foxx, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) of Alachua County, Florida, about six times from November 9, 2016, to November 21, 2016, according to The Gainesville Sun. Foxx filed a complaint with the department on December 30, 2016.

The man, whom the publication said is homeless, allegedly told the president that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan and said they were going to visit Foxx at her home and “hang” her, according to the complaint obtained by the publication. ​

 

[Jennifer17]

I wonder if he was the nutter who used to post daily in the comments section of the Daily Mail, in all caps that he was going to lynch Obama and had even chosen the tree in the White House yard.

 

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Out of fear following the threats, police say, Foxx went out of state to stay with family for a few weeks. Then she lived out of the county when she returned to Florida because she was afraid of staying at her home.

Foxx told The Sun she went to Wadford’s first court appearance Friday morning.

“I had to see this man,” she said. “He’s been looking over my shoulder for almost two years.” Foxx called the last two years “torture” and recalled being afraid to sit on her back porch at night.