Strath Haven High School students protest students involved in racist letter campaign

Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Strath Haven High School students staged a walkout Wednesday morning.

Police temporarily shut down South Providence Road after students walked out in protest against fellow students suspected of penning a disgusting hate-filled letter and also a picture of them posing as KKK members.
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"All schools have issues but like our school is not like that," said Barbara Munn.

Hayden Soch said, "I think it's terrible I don't know why they did that but before this they seemed like relatively good people but I don't what they were doing."

An investigation is now underway by local police.

According to detectives, the letter was placed at 4 homes of minority families in the Swarthmore Borough over the weekend.



At the top it states "Dear Non-U.S. Citizens."

Then reads, "due to President Trump's election, people like yourself should leave the country by 9 a.m. the next day."

It suggests after they leave they should get jobs as prostitutes or work at McDonalds or Denny's.
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But police say what's most disturbing is when the authors wrote they would "execute u and ur kidos" if those who got the letter didn't leave their homes.

"It's horrible what happened but we had a few discussions about it," said Elliot Kurz.

So far police say they suspect at least four female high school students to be the authors.



Wallingford-Swarthmore School District Superintendent Lisa Palmer says they're fully cooperating.

"It concerns me on so many levels because it is not at all representative of the community that is Wallingford-Swarthmore," she said. "I love the community it is inclusive and this is something I just don't understand."

On top of the physical letters, a social media post has gained momentum with the letter and students wearing those KKK masks.
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Police now confirm at least one of them is a female student that's partially responsible for penning the hate-filled letter.

"I think it's disgusting. I'm actually friends with someone of them so I think it's wrong that they did that."

Police say because the authors of the letter threatened violence there could be arrests made in the near future.



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