A Wisconsin man was spotted casually walking his dog while wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe – prompting at least three calls to cops, according to reports.
Vilas County sheriff’s officials said the man, identified as Charles Michael Booth, 50, was “out walking his dog, wearing a Ku Klux Klan shirt, drinking a beer and waving at traffic” in Conover late Friday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Deputies made contact with Booth after getting multiple calls about him as he walked near Monheim Road and Highway K, but the Conover man won’t face any charges for his hateful get-up since there was “no traffic problem” caused by his evening excursion, Sheriff Joseph Fath told the newspaper.
Booth told deputies he was “just taking his dog for a walk,” Fath said, adding that the man wasn’t violating any laws with his KKK regalia.
“I don’t anticipate any follow-up on it,” Fath told the newspaper.
The sheriff’s department received “at least three calls” from passers-by who spotted Booth in his KKK outfit, some of whom claimed he walking in the middle of the road, WAOW reports.
A deputy even stopped Booth at one point and determined he wasn’t creating a traffic hazard, Fath said.
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