Viral Rhode Island KKK Video was a Hoax
You know, one of these days, an incident like this won’t be a hoax but since there have been so many fakes, no one will believe it.
Oh, what a shock!
The police in West Warwick, Rhode Island, said a viral video of a man walking around in a KKK robe was a hoax.
The incident supposedly happened on Monday, April 27, at 2 AM.
“Through multiple interviews, detectives learned that two brothers orchestrated the event in an effort to generate attention on social media and in the news,” the police wrote in a press release. “Both individuals fully admitted to their involvement and provided conclusive evidence confirming that they, and they alone, were responsible for the incident, which ultimately drew nationwide media attention.”
UPDATE: @WestWarwickPD says the brothers who filmed a person in a KKK style white rob, pointed hat, staged the video @7News https://t.co/iivlgoPymm pic.twitter.com/l3WHCQwdSa
— Stephen Quinn (@stephenquinntv) April 30, 2026
The police said the brothers insisted they “denounced any affiliation with hate groups.” The investigation has not unearthed any evidence that they do.
It’s pretty rich that the brothers chose the KKK since the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been in the news after the DOJ accused the organization of funneling $3 million to white hate groups.
According to the indictment, the SPLC allegedly gave $275,000 to one KKK member between 2015 and 2023. Another KKK member allegedly received over $3,500.
The DOJ also accused SPLC of sending over $160,000 from a fictitious entity to a person who then sent the money “to various violent extremist group leaders including the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.”
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Why were the police even investigating this? Suppose it really had been an actual Grand Klaxon or whatever, parading around, holding a torch and a sign that read “Bring Back Slavery”. So what? This is America, where we have an unalienable right to do that sort of thing. So long as he didn’t appear to be about to break some law, how was it the police’s business?
Man, it really chaps my ass when I have to agree with milhouse.
Better to believe that MILLHOUSE has come around to agreeing with YOU.
“Grand Klaxon”? LOL, I love it.
And, the reason they have to investigate it is “hate.” You know, that thing that was never a crime until the race mongers ran out of actual racially motivated crimes.
Robert Byrd – dead and still getting payoffs. Francisco Franco wishes he had it so good.
It was probably the equivalent of a Karen call to police ‘hey there’s a guy doing X thing I don’t like/or on video doing it so LEO go down there and find out what’s what b/c I pay your salary and I don’t want that in MY town’…that’s my guess. How many videos have we seen of folks more/less minding their own business but simply filming in public and everyone from Karens to Cops lose their minds over being filmed in public view. Same for open carry in some places, sometimes even where there’s a specific statute authorizing it beyond the basic US and State Constitutional protections.
Go check out the Pittsburgh Police Scanner X account.
It’s New England. They will just manufacture a crime. Or they will investigate you and find an actual crime you committed years ago.
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime!”
Well, by design, it probably ginned up some concern in the neighborhoods (no pun intended).
But in RI, like MA and CT, the hoax will be whitewashed (deliberate) faster than a fake noose at a state college….
And what crime exactly did they commit? A costume becomes a felony if it isn’t Halloween?
In some states yes. Wearing a mask in public was a crime unless it was Halloween. This was a law originally made against the Klan, but remained on the books in some states until the Wuhan epidemic.
Every day in Portland is Halloween. Friday was sort of nice as the whack jobs concentrated them selves downtown away from the few remaining normal people.
That was my first reaction as well.
Grand Klaxon?
Come on, everyone knows that you call the leader of the KKK a ‘Robert Byrd, Senator’.
Actually “Grand Kleagle” was quite a low rank in the Klan. Byrd wasn’t a leader of very much, just of a local chapter. But I wrote “Grand Klaxon” on purpose.
we’ve had this discussion before
they would charge the brothers with disturbance of the peace and/or add in some hate law jargon etc and more so keep the pressure up until the brothers relented …
unless the brothers have fu money and can hold out against the government
Because our elected gov officials came up with “hate” crime laws. They’ve been tearing at the Constitution pretty much since the country began.
No, they haven’t. Hate crime laws do not criminalize hatred. A hate crime is first and foremost an actual crime, that was motivated by hatred. If something is not a crime then it can’t be a hate crime.
They were probably looking for a handout from the SPLC. 🙂
What is funny about this is it’s so OBVIOUSLY bogus. It took place at 2am! 2am is when you do stupid sh** precisely because there’s no one awake or around to see it. Even if they did this in rush hour traffic on a Monday morning, it wouldn’t be a crime, but there would be people around to jeer them and maybe get in a fight or throw avocados at them*. But they’re afraid of even that. Even the hookers have gone home at that point. (Not that there are probably streetwalkers in that neighborhood… but I digress.) That anyone anywhere ever thought this was real is laughable.
(* Look, rotten tomatoes are fun, I guess. But I want to throw avocados. Admittedly they’re more expensive than ‘maters, but even when they’re too soft to be ripe anymore, there’s a rock inside the thing. I want the idiots in the stocks to feel my spite and loathing, not just taste it and wear it.)
Avacados: Turning from a delicacy to martial weapon in a span of 3.5 seconds.
https://youtube.com/shorts/DE-_CCMnxjg?si=Lgqp-DWNOP_0AAfo
The School Of Jussie Smollett
That’s at the Democrat’s Karl Marx University, right? Of course, that could be any of them in New England.
Don’t start holding your breath waiting on that day.
My response to that statement was… “So what?” Even if it’s real, it doesn’t really demonstrate anything other than there’s some stupid people in the world. And we know that. Point, laugh, then go on about your day. Or throw avocados. Your call.
Stupid people are the majority in New England. We call them Democrats.
Imagine you are a member of the Klan. Imagine you are all alone, not with your Klan buddies. “Hey,” you think, “let me put on robes that will excite attention and scream, ‘I’M THE KKK!,’ and walk around downtown small-town Rhode Island in the middle of the night when everybody is sleeping. That’ll show everybody!”
Hey, it COULD be fun. Like if you were on meth or something.
Could be amusing if they held a sign defending the SPLC!
😁😂🤣
Oh, come on. Give it a rest. That”s just Virginia’s former Democrat Governor Ralph Northam heading over to his medical school reunion.
Spanberger still getting fitted for hers?
Imagine you’re a Senator from Rhode Island. Imagine you belong to an all “white” club. Imagine that you were worried someone got a video of you after the local klan meeting.
Courtesy phone for Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse?
Howie Carr likes to call him “Sheldon Onlywhitesinhehouse.”
Whitehouse’s yacht club was only “all white” in the same sense that my synagogue happens right now to be “all white”. We happen at the moment not to have any non-white congregants; we have had some in the past, and in all likelihood will have some in the future, but a large majority of Jews in the USA are white, so it’s not unusual to find a synagogue with no one who isn’t white.
The same is true of yacht clubs; the vast majority of people who both own yachts and have an interest in joining a yacht club are white, so it’s common for such a club’s membership at any given moment to be all white. Whitehouse’s club did not exclude non-whites, but there weren’t great hordes of non-white yacht owners applying for membership.
This doesn’t make Whitehouse any better a person. But we shouldn’t denigrate the club for the wrong thing. The worst thing that can be said about it is that it admitted the Whitehouses as members.
Can Jussie Smollett account for his whereabouts during this queer incident?
C’mon, you can clearly see the dude has no sandwich in his hands.
Oops
THe odds of the KKK taking hold in Rhode Island are pretty slim. The only thing that makes it possible is it’s a Democrat run state and everyone knows the KKK supports Democrats.
Or do the DemoncRats support the KKK?
Police reports usually include the races of the people involved. Why are reporters not reporting the race of the brothers? Could it be because they are “brothers”?
That would fit with police claiming that there was no hate involved. If it was just fake hate…
…which usually is intended to create hatred of white people. Yeah, race really should be reported here.
Blacks cannot be guilty of hate crimes; only the lesser civil infraction of love deficiency.
So, your asking if it was two brothers, or two “brothers”, or two “brothers” brothers?
Jussie Smollett’s trainers left to form their own band.
A HOAX?
But of course it was.
I knew it was a hoax as soon as I saw it was in West Warwick. Not even the clan would want to go there. The dumpster of RI
Simple economics: a shortage of actual racism will increase the supply of substitutes for actual racism.
yeah but whats not a hoax is neighboring maine throwing their weight behind the nazi loving msm supported candidate platner so well that the old hag who is gov is getting out of his way
“The West Warwick Police Department would like to thank members of the community who came forward with information,” police said. “Thorough investigations such as this often rely on community involvement, and we appreciate the public’s cooperation and assistance.”
Ryan Fitzgerald previously told The Boston Globe he filmed video of the hooded figure after spotting the person while he was out driving with his brother. But after West Warwick police released Thursday’s update, Fitzgerald admitted to the Globe that he was actually the person wearing the robe and hood, while his brother was purportedly behind the camera.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/04/30/person-wearing-kkk-robes-in-r-i-was-pulling-a-social-media-stunt-police-say/
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