Who Thought This Was Okay: Group Of Teens Dress Up Like The “KKK” For Halloween & Shout The “N” Word!

A group of what appear to be teenagers wearing Ku Klux Klan robes at a Halloween gathering in El Paso has drawn sharp condemnation from U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, local leaders, and the El Paso NAACP.

Social media images and videos show about six people in pointed white robes in a backyard and walking along a dark East Side neighborhood street.

At a Monday news conference outside the El Paso County courthouse, NAACP branch president Carl B. Dwyer Jr. said displaying KKK symbolism is inappropriate and deeply hurtful to the Black community, even if meant as a joke. “I served this country for 31 years as a United States Army soldier… And still to this day in 2026, we have people who think it’s OK to don white sheets, white robes and white hats,” he said emotionally.

About 25 supporters joined him, including city Representatives Chris Canales and Josh Acevedo and school board President Leah Hanany. Dwyer prefers education over punishment and hopes to speak with those involved. The NAACP also plans a town-hall meeting on discrimination.

Rep. Escobar called the reports “deeply disturbing and unacceptable,” stating that treating the KKK’s history of white supremacy and violence as a costume is not a joke. State Sen. Cesar Blanco said the behavior does not reflect El Paso and should never be trivialized.

Community members stressed that silence in the face of such imagery enables racism and contradicts El Paso’s values of diversity and resilience.