Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist Patriot Front, the white supremacist group, outside of a Pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Saturday, after finding them packed in the back of a U-haul with riot gear.
Dozens of men wearing masks were seen on a U-Haul truck wearing khakis, dark blue shirts, and beige caps, and they had white ski masks covering their faces, according to several civil rights organizations.
When police pulled over a U-Haul truck about 10 minutes later, they found that the men inside were all wearing similar khaki pants, blue shirts, white facemasks, and baseball caps. Police learned about the U-haul through a tipper, who reported it looked like a small army had been loaded onto a car in a hotel parking lot, White said.
The police department said on Tuesday that they were working on security at Pride events, but stressed that no concrete information had been provided about whether any groups planned to riot. White said the police had received reports over a number of days that there were plans from a variety of right-wing extremists to disrupt the Coeur d’Alene Pride events.
The suspects were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct, Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said during an afternoon press briefing. Lee White, the chief of police for the Coeur d’Alene City, told reporters all of the men were charged with conspiracy to commit riot, a misdemeanor.
Thirty-one people affiliated with the white nationalist group Patriot Front were arrested near an annual LGBTQ+ event Saturday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, police said. The suspects were booked on suspicion of conspiracy to riot, Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said at an afternoon news conference.
Among those in custody, late Saturday was a man with the same name as Patriot Front’s Dallas-based founder, Thomas Ryan Rousseau. White said police were made aware in recent days that a number of groups planned to disrupt Pride in the Park, an annual event highlighting civil rights struggles for the LGBTQ+ communities. “msn.com“
Racism is alive and well here in America. Lawmakers in Washington are more worried about fighting with each other rather than doing their jobs and creating a safe place for the Americans who want something done about these hate groups. Perhaps the laws on the books are just not heavy enough? Damn right they are.
Mabey we should take a look at what Germany has done about Neo Natzism. They have zero tolerance for hate speech. I know this is America where we have the freedom to say whatever we want. However, extremist groups take their hate speech really close to the limit.
In Germany, the very presence of neo-Nazis openly marching through a city bearing swastika-emblazoned flags, as in Charlottesville, is unthinkable. Unlike the United States, Germany places strict limits on speech and expression when it comes to right-wing extremism.
It is illegal to produce, distribute or display symbols of the Nazi era — swastikas, the Hitler salute, along with many symbols that neo-Nazis have developed as proxies to get around the initial law. Holocaust denial is also illegal. “nytimes.com“
Whether it be the KKK or Proud Boys, no white supremacist group should not be tolerated or accepted in our America. These groups are in my opinion home terrorists. They should be treated as so. The United States loves building more prisons.
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So what did they do that was illegal? Traveling in a Uhaul isn’t illegal. All will be set free because there was no crime. You can’t arrest and charge someone with thought crimes. Germany is hardly the example we should be following. The First Amendment protects “hate” speech. “Nice” speech doesn’t need protection.
It’s simple: they were being delayed in an attempt to keep them from expressing their views.
Exactly. Obvious 1st Amendment violation. I’m a big police supporter but many of them are led by “just following orders” types. Police stand around and watch illegal protests at SCOTUS Justice homes, even after murder/kidnap attempt, while potentially protesting a homosexual march is totally illegal.
Oh, so they were arrested on conspiracy to be naughty?
This paragraph makes no sense:
So, which one was it, conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct, or conspiracy to riot?
I noted from the article that while they were dressed alike, but said absolutely nothing about these men being armed; I assume, therefore, that they were not armed.
The constitution guarantees our right to freedom of speech and freedom of peaceable assembly. These gentlemen would have to have a demonstrated intent to assemble in a non-peaceable manner; has this been done?
Really? There was “no concrete information” that any groups planned to riot, but they “received reports”? Here we see the fallacy of the so-called ‘red flag’ laws, in which anybody can report anything, forcing government action to curtail someone’s civil liberties.
The Patriot Front have every right to express their views, including negative views about homosexuality. What I read in this article was that the government was exercising prior restraint to keep them from doing so.
Streiff had a piece over at Redstate yesterday you guys might find enlightening… seems these Patriot Front guys might be FBLIE provocateurs, which would explain being protected in Leftist Chicago but stomped on in red-state Idaho.
Sounds like a silly way to arrest people, relying on some of that “If you see something, say something.”
I have one bone to pick, not a big one, but the Proud Boys are not a white supremacist organization, since there are blacks and hispanics who are also members. I would never dare to include them next to the KKK, which did engage in actual violence since their founding. I might use a group like “By any means necessary” or ” Ruth Sent Us” since they behave as radicals and are engaging in violence.
An interesting twist always seems to happen in the big media portrayal of anyone who comes to an event who has a differeing position, especially when violence may be possible. The media tends to primarily cast any group that is never on the left as the ones who are the racists and the radical violent groups. That’s why it is always good advice to lay off the big media liars. Their agenda is preordained, and is fully leftist.