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Maryland Attorney General asks victims of racist texts to come forward

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(Baltimore, MD) -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is asking residents who have received racist threats to come forward.

Brown's office has received multiple reports of texts being sent to Black Marylanders from an unknown sender with messages telling them to "board a bus" to be transported to a "plantation" to work as a slave.

The messages appear to be part of a nationwide campaign targeting Black people following the election.

Brown says it's critical that people who receive the text message report them to police and to the Attorney General's Civil Rights Division.

24/7 News Source contributed to this report.