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Mizzou Student Body President’s KKK Warning Turns Out to Be Hoax

John Bickley

Payton Head, the University of Missouri Student Body President who’s unsubstantiated allegation that racist comments were directed at him helped spark the outcry by activists that led to the resignation of the university president, made another claim Tuesday that turned out not just to be unsubstantiated but patently false.

Tuesday the student body president at the heart of the movement that ousted both University President Tom Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin posted on Facebook that there was a “confirmed” Ku Klux Klan presence on campus.

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