Black homebuyer finds "KKK application" in cop's home

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Rob Mathis was ready to make an offer on the house—a grand five-bedroom home sitting on 22 acres in the small town of Holton, Michigan. But during a recent tour of the property, a quick rundown of the home’s decor put Mathis and his wife, Reyna on edge: A NASCAR-decorated garage housing two Confederate flags, Confederate placemats (imagine loving the the Dixie flag so much you can’t even stomach eating your boiled chicken with looking at it). Oh, and on top of all that—the home belonged to a cop.

It was all so on-the-nose that Mathis found himself wondering, “Wouldn’t it be funny if this was a Klansman’s house?” he said in an interview with MLive.

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Then he and his son went into a bedroom and saw, mounted on the wall behind a vanity, a framed, yellowing, whole-arse KKK application.

“Application for citizenship in the invisible empire: Knights of the Klu Klux Klan” the empty application read.

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But the story takes an even darker turn. For reasons that should be fairly obvious, Mathis and wife, who is Latina, were rattled by the fact that a cop could have any possible Klan affiliation (even if it were “just” a love for racist memorabilia). But as it turns out, Anderson fatally shot a black man, 23-year-old Julius Johnson, during a traffic stop in 2009. 

An investigation cleared Anderson of any wrongdoing in Johnson’s death. From the Washington Post:

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