Morning Briefing: White Supremacists Groups Attend Anti-Abortion Marches
Morning Briefing: White Supremacists Groups Attend Anti-Abortion Marches
The annual anti-abortion March for Life events attracted members of White Supremacist groups in both San Francisco, California and Washington, D.C.
Morning Briefing: Members of the New Columbia Movement, a far right Christian Nationalist group, met the with members of Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, at the annual March for Life in Washington D.C.
Thomas Rousseau, the leader of Patriot Front, had previously “marched alongside James Alex Fields, Jr., the man who murdered Heather Heyer and injured many others” during the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
The Walk for Life march in San Francisco was also reportedly attended by “several members of the Goyim Defense League,” an antisemetic White Supremacist group.
On the campus of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe staged a protest and the group reportedly “screamed racist chants outside Knilans residence hall, lighting flares and displaying antisemitic symbols.”
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an antisemitic image was “spray-painted on a building adjacent to the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza,” and local law enforcement is reportedly investigating the incident and has identified a suspect that was “wearing a black mask and a dark jacket (possibly brown) with a stripe across the chest and down the arms.”
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Isn't James Alex Fields, Jr., in prison?