MILWAUKEE, May 30 (UPI) -- Police Thursday held a reputed racist after linking him to racially explicit fliers connected to the disappearance of a 7-year-old girl.
Brian T. Werner, 22, of Waukesha, Wis., was arrested Wednesday. He allegedly placed racist fliers outside America's Black Holocaust Museum as well as on cars and shop doors.
Milwaukee Police Chief Arthur Jones said Werner, who wears a Mohawk haircut and is tattooed with hate slogans and racist images, has a reputation "for hatred of African Americans."
Jones said the content of the fliers led investigators to believe Werner may know something about the disappearance of Alexis Patterson, who vanished on May 3 while walking to school in her north side neighborhood.
The fliers say there is no reason for whites to be concerned about the disappearance of Alexis, who is black.
