Simplify the following text for a Grade 6 native English-speaking person.
Original: A short time later , the scandal surrounding the murder trial of D.C. Stephenson destroyed the image of the Ku Klux Klan as upholders of law and order . By 1926 the Ku Klux Klan was `` crippled and discredited . ''
Simplified: The first Ku Klux Klan disband and does not exist anymore .