Jim Lynch said a white nationalist group which has allegedly distributed literature in Bordentown City recently “picked the wrong town.”

Lynch, who has been the mayor for the past 32 years, said the Burlington County city by the Delaware River is a diverse community.

“We’re going to defend and support the people who live in Bordentown,” Lynch said. “If they want to stir that incitement in Bordentown, it’s not going to be like that.”

Two residents filed police reports last week about stickers on street signs with messages like “Feminism is Cancer” and “Love your Race.”

“This is the sort of thing, if not addressed, can spread,” Scott Reichek told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday. “And I don’t want them screwing up my community.”

A web address on the stickers led to a site for the New Jersey European Heritage Association and contained white supremacist language often used in American Nazi literature.

The group said it was composed of members of “the local community.”

But Lynch found that hard to believe.

“I know everybody in this town,” said Lynch, 64, a sales manager in a car dealership. “I was born and raised here. We open arms to everyone. We have every type of group here, gays, lesbians, African Americans, everybody. I can honestly say that 90 percent of our town is prejudice free.”

Lynch said he hesitated to say 100 percent.

The “Feminism” sticker was posted on Farnsworth Avenue near a shop called Broomstick Betty. The owner filed a complaint.

“I told them it feels like hate speech is being posted,” Jacqueline Laven said. “I think the president makes it acceptable for the most cowardly people to come out of hiding and be more in the open with their hate. I think it’s acceptable to them in some way because our president is who he is.”

Laven said a Bordentown City police officer she spoke with Tuesday said he would investigate the NJEHA website in connection to the stickers.

“We have documented and are investigating the incidents and are gathering more information on NJEHA,” Police Chief Frederic Miller said Thursday in an email. “My department is also in contact with Department of Homeland Security.”

Miller and Lynch said efforts were underway to look at any available surveillance video in the area in which the stickers were found to see who may be posting them.

Bordentown City is surrounded by Bordentown Township.

The former Bordentown Township police chief is awaiting trial on a federal crime for assaulting a handcuffed black teenager in 2016 and recorded making racially insensitive remarks afterward.

Bordentown Township has a population of 11,800 and is 76 percent white, 9 percent black and 10 percent Asian. Bordentown City has a population of 3,900; is 81 percent white, 11 percent black and 4 percent Asian.

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