Morning Briefing: North Dakota Nonprofits Settle Lawsuit Against White Nationalist Group
The North Dakota Human Rights Coalition and the Immigrant Development Center have 'settled their lawsuit against a white nationalist hate group that alleged it intimidated immigrant business owners.'
Morning Briefing: The North Dakota Human Rights Coalition and the Immigrant Development Center have reportedly “settled their lawsuit against a white nationalist hate group that alleged it intimidated immigrant business owners.” The details of the group’s settlement with Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, remain unknown, “including financial payments, have not been publicly disclosed.”
Adam Edward Braun, who “targeted and terrorized” a Jewish synagogue in Eugene, Oregon in 2023 and early last year, was sentenced to “four years of probation,” and the judge characterized Braun’s actions as “disgusting, reprehensible, inappropriate and not part of any civilized society where we actually care for one another as human beings”
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, David Hart is the second individual that has reportedly been arrested “after a neighborhood was defaced with graffiti and propaganda,” and local law enforcement provide photographs of “stop signs covered in graffiti was well as stickers that say ‘White Lives Matter.’” Robert Hebert was previously arrested for distributing racist propaganda "aimed at certain groups of people."
Pardon Tracker is part of independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, investigating the pardons and commutations for individuals involved in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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They are traitors and deserve to be ghosted
…settled means capitulated with no real consequences for the NAZIS, way to go america !