Residents of Richmond, Va., awoke Wednesday morning to find that an activist art collective had hung Ku Klux Klan effigies wearing white robes, clown shoes and rainbow-colored wigs in a town park, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

The "Ku Klux Klowns" were left in a tree in Richmond's Joseph Bryan Park on Tuesday night by the artist group known as "Indecline," which had previously erected naked statues of then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in several major U.S. cities before the 2016 election.

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Richmond Police have removed the display and are currently investigating the incident, a police spokeswoman told the Dispatch.

Indecline's website released a video showing four masked men hanging the effigies at night, which the group said was in "protest of the White Nationalist uprising in the United States."

The group chose Richmond, it said, because the city has an "infamous legacy of being the capital of the Confederate South."

White nationalist demonstrators marched on Charlottesville, Va., last month in protest of the removal of a Confederate statue in a city park, which led to violent clashes with counterprotesters. The Klan was one of several white supremacist groups involved in the "Unite the Right" march.

One woman marching with people protesting white supremacist died after a man drove his car into a crowd.