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Related: About this forumWhite Supremacist Group Patriot Front Seen Marching Through D.C. Friday Morning
A group of a few dozen men wearing small shields and carrying flags associated with the white supremacist group Patriot Front were seen marching on the National Mall towards the Capitol Friday morning.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Texas-based Patriot Front as an image-obsessed organization focused on a fascist agenda and theatrical rhetoric. The group has chapters across the U.S. and broke off from white-nationalist group Vanguard America following the deadly Charlottesville Unite the Right rally in 2017.
ProPublica describes Patriot Front as perhaps the most active white supremacist group in the nation.
Footage taken by ProPublica reporter Lydia DePillis shows the group marching in formation, wearing face coverings, and carrying upside down American flags (which is historically used to convey distress or great danger). The group was heard shouting reclaim America and unleashed red and blue smoke.
Videos at link
wcmagumba
(3,152 posts)NotHardly
(1,180 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)MarcA
(2,195 posts)Must be really proud of these facts.
underpants
(186,647 posts)Thats just horrible.
Leghorn21
(13,737 posts)TICK TOCK, LOSERS
IronLionZion
(46,974 posts)the march for life is also today and many of them are not wearing masks, and probably will kill people by spreading COVID.
kysrsoze
(6,142 posts)I'd love to see the shit kicked out of them.
IronLionZion
(46,974 posts)They must use an alias when applying for the permit and made sure to do it the same day as march for life.
GemDigger
(4,327 posts)if it's to the benefit of all of us.
Flippin cowards!
OAITW r.2.0
(28,370 posts)Same anti-American message, though.
ancianita
(38,537 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 30, 2021, 11:21 AM - Edit history (1)
These guys are headquartered in TX, and though they might just use symbols and theatrics elsewhere, they still hide among all kinds of armed racists in that state.
Patriot Front's only 3-4 years old, but they ask for and get training from racist military vets.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/marine-veteran-trains-white-supremacists-in-military-tactics
PF set up tables at universities to recruit young fascists like themselves, being active in Houston San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and San Marcos. People demonstrate against them, but they could mobilize violence. I hope Texas Democrats keep safe.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article244719547.html
The Anti-Defamation League's explanation
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/patriot-front
Their leader, unmasked, who comes from Coppell, TX, northwest of the Dallas