Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazis and Far Right Groups Target Pride in the Park
Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazis and Far Right Groups Target Pride in the Park
The Pride in the Park event in Watertown, Wisconsin was targeted by multiple far right groups, including anti-abortion extremists and neo-Nazi White Supremacists.
Morning Briefing: Multiple far right groups targeted the Pride in the Park event in Watertown, Wisconsin, including anti-abortion extremists, and far right anti-LGBTIQ groups, and neo-Nazis White Supremacist.
Blood Tribe, neo-Nazi group “with semi-autonomous chapters in the United States and Canada,” was among the groups that targeted the event in Watertown.
The group reportedly “waved flags bearing the swastika symbol, gave the Nazi salute to onlookers and yelled homophobic rhetoric,” and “one member even brandished a weapon across his chest.”
The event was also targeted by Gays Against Groomers, which published a press release that stated the group “strongly condemns the presence of Nazi sympathizers,” and claimed the group “cannot always control who we are seen with in public.”
Jason Storms, the national director of the anti-abortion extremist group Operation Save America (OSA), and other members of OSA were also present at Pride in the Park.
Ryan Scott Bradford was arrested by federal law enforcement “after he called for the mass murder of Jews in online comments and said that he was able to make guns at home using a 3D printer.”
Bradford’s home “contained multiple weapons and 3D-printed gun parts which can illegally make a firearm fully automatic,” and one of the “3D printers was covered in a Nazi swastika.”
Suzanne Craft “has been sentenced to nine years in prison for mailing letters to an interracial couple and their children including threats of violence and racial slurs.”
In Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, a yoga studio was broken into and an individual “vandalized the common area, stole a few items and drew a swastika on the chalkboard.” William Klare was arrested by local law enforcement and is alleged to have caused “extensive damage,” including “damaging religious items and removing prayer documents.”
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