Ku Klux Klan crashes Minuteman rally

2:53 a.m. April 1, 2007

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – About 10 members of the Ku Klux Klan crashed a rally organized by the anti-illegal immigration group the Minuteman Project Saturday, police said.

Wearing black T-shirts with the KKK insignia, their faces covered with bandanas and sunglasses, the group chanted and waved American flags.

Minuteman Project spokesman Raymond Herrera said his group of about 40 decided to leave when the Klan members showed up. He said the group did not invite the racist organization to join the rally and would no longer post the dates of its rallies on the Web.

“We dont approve of standing anywhere near the KKK – theyre not with us,” said Herrera, a Mexican-American from Victorville. “Were a multiethnic group. We dont believe in racism, and when the Nazis show up we cancel the rallies immediately. We do not intermingle and we do not believe in their philosophy.”

More than 100 day laborers held a counter-protest nearby.

Police monitored the dueling protests but made no arrests.