Hundreds of Thousands Sign Petitions Urging the US Government to Declare KKK a Terrorist Group

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June 10, 2020

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Hundreds of thousands of people are demanding that the Ku Klux Klan be listed as a terrorist organization, with several online petitions rapidly gaining support.
A number of change.org petitions have gone viral this week demanding the white supremacist hate group be classified as terrorists, prompting them to be included among the top trends on Twitter.
One such petition calling for the KKK to be declared a terrorist organization reached 100,000 signatures before it closed.
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