Black Atlanta woman posing as a white member of the Ku Klux Klan

Black woman posing as white Ku Klux Klan member facing terrorism charges, reports Independent.

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A black woman accused of posing as a white member of the Ku Klux Klan in order to threaten her neighbors is facing terrorism charges.

African American families received “racially motivated threats” letters that dropped into their mailboxes during the night.

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According to police, a white man, 1 m 83 cm tall, a member of the Ku Klux Klan with a long red beard, who allegedly threatened to hang blacks in the Atlanta area, turned out to be a 30-year-old black woman.

Terresha Lucas was arrested and charged with eight counts of terrorist threats for allegedly leaving notes with "racial motives" in mailboxes in a suburb of Douglasville, about 40 kilometers west of the city.

The Douglasville Police Department said in a press release that the notes were allegedly written by a white KKK member from another city.

"The notes threatened to burn down their houses and kill them and said they didn't belong in the area," Detective Nathan Shumaker said.

The first note was discovered on December 21 last year: at least seven black residents of the Brookmont area received letters in February, March and finally in September. Families in the neighborhood lived in fear as a year passed without arrest.

“I received one two days ago and was alarmed by what I read,” the Douglasville resident said.

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“The letter uses the N-word and talks about the KKK, hanging people, killing children, killing entire families and burning houses,” he added.

The summer passed without a letter until Labor Day, when police said they had received a search warrant after talking to residents of the area and watching video footage from a security camera.

The search allegedly found evidence linking Lucas to the letters, Shumaker said.

They also claim that all letters were written by the same person, by coincidence of handwriting, tone and style.

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Lucas first appeared in court on Thursday morning September 30 and was denied bail, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.

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