BANGOR, Maine — A Bangor man said he and his family discovered roughly two dozen Easter eggs containing flyers with White Supremacist propaganda at a park on Easter Sunday.
Samuel Woodman said he was with his family at Talbot Park on Second Street in Bangor when his son found one of the eggs and brought it to him.
“My son comes up to me with an Easter egg and says, ‘Dad look there’s Easter eggs here, the Easter Bunny came here,’” Woodman said. “I opened it up and there wasn’t any candy in it; it was a flyer that was folded, folded again and then rolled up into these Easter eggs.”
Woodman said the flyers contained false statistics, a link to a website with antisemitic messaging and a photo of a teenager who police say was fatally stabbed in Texas earlier this month.
“I feel absolutely disgusted by it,” Woodman said. “Not only am I disgusted by what was on there, I’m disgusted at the fact that somebody took the time to roll these up and put them in tiny Easter eggs and leave them around for kids to find.”
After posting his findings on social media, Woodman said he destroyed the flyers and threw them away.
“[What if] it wasn’t me who found them,” Woodman said. “What if it was a 10- or 13-year-old older sibling with their little siblings who can read and can process things and can learn and [are] very impressionable and believe those statistics to be true then they can go tell their friends who would believe it.”
Spectrum News has reached out to the Bangor Police Department for more information.
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