Morning Briefing: Patriot Front Stages March at War Memorial in Kansas City
Numerous members of Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, descended on Kansas City, 'holding a rally outside the National WWI Museum and Memorial.'
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Morning Briefing: Numerous members of Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, reportedly descended on Kansas City, “holding a rally outside the National WWI Museum and Memorial and marching downtown carrying flags and chanting.” Members of Patriot Front “wore matching outfits of khaki and navy with white face masks, hats and sunglasses that obscured their faces,” and “many carried altered or upside-down American flags.”
Michail Chkhikvishvili, the alleged leader of an eastern European neo-Nazi group, has reportedly been “extradited to the United States from Moldova following his arrest last summer for allegedly instructing an undercover federal agent to dress as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children and racial minorities.”
In Washington, D.C., the Sinners and Saints restaurant was the target of apparent anti-LGBTIQ vandalism, as the “glass from the restaurant's front door was broken,” and “homophobic slur had been scrawled on a wall.” Local Law enforcement is reportedly “investigating the break-in as a suspected hate crime.”
Radical Reports is tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacists, and violent extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month.
Libs of TikTok, the social media account operated by far right anti-LGBTIQ social media influencer Chaya Raichik, has used extremist anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric to target at least seven schools, libraries, and other organizations hosting events or otherwise supporting the LBGTIQ community during Pride Month.
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Citizens need to start picking up rocks and giving these pussies something to fear.