Morning Briefing: White Supremacist Groups Spread Propaganda on Hitler's Birthday
Morning Briefing: White Supremacist Groups Spread Propaganda on Hitler's Birthday
White Supremacist groups celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday by spreading racist and antisemitic propaganda in communities around the country.
Morning Briefing: White Supremacists neo-Nazi messaging reportedly “appeared on at least three digital billboards in metro Detroit over the weekend to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday.”
Billboard4Me, the company which owns the billboards, has removed the billboards and has apologized for the billboards, and reportedly claimed that “silhouetted images, acronyms, and other deceptive tactics to get past our initial screening process.”
The Michigan chapter of White Lives Matter, the White Nationalist group, claimed credit for the billboards in a post the group’s Telegram channel as well as a post on Twitter/X.
In the photos and images posted online, the billboards appeared framed next to White Supremacists propaganda from various White Supremacists groups including White Lives Matter and Goyim Defense League.
Other chapters of White Lives Matter also posted images and video in Telegram channels of members of the White Nationalist group staging protests or spreading propaganda in other states.
In Spokane, Washington, multiple posters produced by White Lives Matter were reportedly “found at the Second Avenue and Jefferson Street intersection in downtown.”
In Santa Barbara, California, a White Supremacists antisemitic banner on a Highway 101 overpass, and the banner reportedly appeared while “group of at least six white males dressed in black clothes, black hats, and red scarves covering their faces stood atop the pedestrian overpass.”
The Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office has reportedly charged two members of Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, with allegedly placing White Supremacist stickers on businesses in downtown Wallace, Idaho, and the two individuals reportedly “could face up to a year in county jail and a fine of up to $1,000.”
Nathaniel Noyce, a member of Patriot Front, has been arrested for allegedly “striking a police officer” during the Capitol Riot, and has been reportedly been “charged with assaulting law enforcement officers, civil disorder, and violence and disorderly conduct at the Capitol.”
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