Byline: Jay Jochnowitz Staff writer
The so-called Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan canceled a planned demonstration at the state Capitol Sunday, but a handful of Klansmen and suspected Klansmen found themselves heckled, struck by eggs, spat at and pelted with snowballs by a huge crowd of counterdemonstrators.
Police, who also endured a shower of snowballs, brought out riot gear at one point and arrested one person who was demonstrating against the racist organization.
Organizers of the counterprotest were pleased with the size of the crowd - estimated by police at 700 people, but set by some other accounts at more than 1,000 - and its apparent success in scaring off the Klan.
William Hoff, imperial wizard of the Klan in New York, claimed in a telephone interview from his home in Queens that the demonstration was canceled because of a lack of organization, but some members apparently did not get the message. One police source, who asked not to be identified, said about a dozen Klansmen were at the Capitol Sunday afternoon in street clothes. …
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