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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite nationalists terrorize Houston Book Fair in largest show of force since Charlottesville
White nationalists terrorize Houston Book Fair in largest show of force since CharlottesvilleAlterNet 01 OCT 2017 AT 07:43 ET
Together, they raised their arms in a salute of Sieg heil. On Sunday, September 24, about 25 men in masks and balaclavas descended on an anarchist book fair in Houston. The group call itself Patriot Front and is loosely affiliated with Vanguard Front, a fascist organization that includes Heather Heyers murderer, James Alex Fields, as one of its members. They rushed the door of a multicultural community center, igniting a pair of smoke bombs. Witnesses say the assault was led by construction worker and area neo-Nazi, William Fears.
After shouting blood and soil and other vulgar slogans for 15 minutes, the fascists stole a handmade sign from the fair and fled the scene. They later posted photos of themselves defiantly clutching the cloth banner on social media.
Police, who organizers claimed had appeared earlier in the day to intimidate the book fairs participants, did not intervene.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/white-nationalists-terrorize-houston-book-fair-in-largest-show-of-force-since-charlottesville/?comments=disqus
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White nationalists terrorize Houston Book Fair in largest show of force since Charlottesville (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Oct 2017
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rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)1. Police should arrest them. They're terrorist.
sinkingfeeling
(51,459 posts)2. So, It's okay with Houston's police department to set off smoke bombs?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)5. Nazi/KKK/alt right only
All others gets busted heads and jail time I bet.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)3. Police non-interference
This isn't the first time, and it won't be the last. Same was true in Charlottesville.
There's a reason.
FBI's warning of white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement nearly forgotten
http://thegrio.com/2015/05/12/fbi-white-supremacists-law-enforcement/
The KKK Has Infiltrated U.S. Police Departments for Decades
During the Civil Rights movement, one of the KKKs first orders was to infiltrate police departments around the country. http://fusion.net/story/245527/police-history-kkk-connections/
Iggo
(47,558 posts)4. Yeah, there's a reason.
Some of those that work forces
Are the same who burn crosses.