Masked white nationalists march in Washington with police escort
More than 100 members of the Patriot Front, dressed in khaki pants and caps, blue jackets and white face masks, shouted "Reclaim America!" and "Life, liberty, victory!" video of the march showed.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Patriot Front as a white nationalist group that broke off from a similar organization, Vanguard America, in the aftermath of the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.
At that rally, self-described neo Nazi James Fields drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2018.
U.S. President Donald Trump drew criticism from his fellow Republicans as well as Democrats for saying that "both sides" were to blame for the deadly 2017 incident.
Video of Saturday's march in Washington posted on the News2Share Facebook page showed occasional hecklers, but there appeared to be no organized counter-protest movement waiting for the Patriot Front as the group marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol grounds and later a nearby Wal-Mart parking garage.
They were accompanied by dozens of police, some on bicycles, but it was unclear whether the group had obtained a permit for the march. A spokeswoman for District of Columbia Metropolitan Police said it had no record of a permit for the march. Capitol Police and the National Park Service could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said that the "First Amendment demonstration was peaceful with no incidents or arrests."
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They can be ordered to install solar panels on poverty homes to lower electricity costs
Larry68Feminist
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Feb 9, 2020
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These scum have too much time on their hands....racism is a hate crime and they should be doing community service like cleaning up Rrrruussshhah dingy Crazy GREEDY LimpBOSS vomit after his lung cancer treatments and wipe his diarrhea from his long tail and anus
Larry68Feminist
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Feb 9, 2020
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what is that old saying? We did nothing when they went after "others" and it was too late when they came after us... ( well that's not it lol)
AmmaRE007
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Feb 9, 2020
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Would these white nationalists actually want to have a war with anyone they considered not white? I mean go back 7 generations (the bible likes 7). You have 128 5xgreat grandparents. Can anyone testify that every single one of them was pure white and legitimate? That's taking us back to around 1750.
@rogerbenham We all came from the Rift valley in Kenya.
@PondartIncbendog Yes I know that. The odds are that 40 or so black Cro Magnon tribesmen came out into the rest of the world gradually and met White Denisovians and White Neandertalians. Somehow the Cro Magnon managed to come on top (maybe that is why we are such horrible people today). Gradually we too became white or brown depending upon where we settled. The nastiest seem to be the whitest. Interesting.
@rogerbenham There was a study years ago that gave a opinion that the reason is the "white folks" from the colder climates had to be more vigilant to withstand the cold.
@PondartIncbendog But the Neanderthalians had been there for possibly 200,000 years so why were they not superior? My guess is that they were the humans who should have lived but were defeated by barbarians.
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