Graffiti defaces trails

Graffiti with white supremacist messaging appeared on and along paved pedestrian trails in Cloquet and Carlton earlier this week.

"White Man Zone" was painted on the walls of the underpass on the north side of the pedestrian bridge over the St. Louis River in Cloquet. Farther down the wall was the Nazi SS Lightning Bolts symbol, commonly used in the white supremacy movement.

Repeatedly, in both Cloquet and along the Willard Munger State Trail in Carlton, someone scrawled the website address for Patriot Front, a white supremacist group, with a cross drawn over the "o" in each word like a rifle...