When Margaret Moore saw on Reddit that white nationalists were demonstrating in Tallahassee , she got in her car and headed downtown.
“Our city can’t be used as a backdrop for recruitment and propaganda of something that has the potential to literally kill,” Moore said.
Moore, a member of the Tallahassee Community Action Committee, used the videos the white supremacist hate group, called Patriot Front, posted on social media, including drone footage, to identify the route they walked.
“Knowing about what I know about hate groups, they leave their garbage everywhere. They leave their signage everywhere. So I thought to myself, we’ve got to retrace their steps,” Moore said.
Moore said she was maybe five minutes behind them and saw the stickers on College Avenue, in Cascades Park and on Duval Street. Light poles downtown were littered with racist propaganda that said slogans like”Nationalist Lifestyle” and “White N Radical.”
At first she tried to peel the stickers off with her fingernails. Later, Moore and a friend came up with a way to soak the stickers with water from a water bottle and use a library card to scrape them off.