ប៉ូលីសរដ្ឋ Idaho ទទួលការគំរាមកំហែងសម្លាប់ បន្ទាប់ពីចាប់ខ្លួនសមាជិក 'រណសិរ្សស្នេហាជាតិ' កំពូលជនជាតិស្បែកស—នេះជាអ្វីដែលយើងដឹងអំពីក្រុមនេះ

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Police in a small Idaho city arrested dozens of purported members of the far-right Patriot Front over the weekend for allegedly plotting to riot at a local LGBTQ Pride event, a startling incident that led police to receive death threats by Monday and brought nationwide attention to a relatively new but already-infamous white supremacist group.

ការពិតសំខាន់

Law enforcement in Coeur d’Alene—a city of 56,000 in northern Idaho—បានប្រកាស Saturday they arrested 31 people from across the country who piled into a U-Haul van carrying shields, shin guards, at least one smoke grenade and documents indicating they were headed to disrupt the city’s downtown មោទនភាពនៅក្នុងឧទ្យាន event that afternoon.

The alleged rioters appeared to be tied to the Patriot Front, according to Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White, and one of the arrestees who now faces misdemeanor conspiracy charges គឺ រាយការណ៍ Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau of រដ្ឋតិចសាស់.

Rousseau founded the Patriot Front in the summer of 2017, splitting off from a separate radical group called Vanguard America, according to the សម្ព័ន្ធប្រឆាំងការបរិហារកេរ្តិ៍។.

The group’s core belief is that the United States fundamentally belongs to people with white European ancestry, a message it often promotes by mixing racist and antisemitic claims with patriotic iconography, the ADL and មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលច្បាប់ភាពក្រីក្រភាគខាងត្បូង និយាយ។

Members of the Patriot Front have appeared at marches and street protests in more than a dozen cities over the last five years, according to the ADL, រួមទាំងមួយ ខែ​ធ្នូ ការហែក្បួន on the National Mall in D.C. that featured about 100 people clutching shields.

ពត៌មាន Peg

The arrests have drawn focus to both the Patriot Front and Coeur d’Alene. At a Monday សន្និសីទសារព័ត៌មាន, White said local law enforcement have received 149 phone calls since the arrests: Roughly half of those calls were supportive messages from local residents, and the other half were anonymous callers from as far afield as Norway who berated the police—and made death threats against officers in some cases.

សាវតាសំខាន់

The Patriot Front split from Vanguard America—and forged its approach to spreading its radical message—after the notoriously violent August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Rousseau led a contingent of Vanguard America members to the caustic rally, but he រាយការណ៍ rebranded his arm of the group after a man ក្រោយមកត្រូវបានកាត់ទោស of killing counterprotester Heather Heyer with his car was photographed standing alongside some Vanguard America members in Charlottesville (the group has denied the driver, James Alex Fields, was one of its members). The SPLC បាននិយាយថា the Patriot Front’s ideology largely didn’t change after this schism, but the group became “image-obsessed” and adopted a slightly more subtle tack. In 2019, ProPublica បានកត់សម្គាល់ថា Rousseau has sought to push his radical beliefs in a disciplined and relatively cautious manner: The group uses patriotic symbols to seem more mainstream, and he is loath to explicitly endorse violence.

តង់ហ្សង់។

The alleged plan to riot in Coeur d’Alene came on the same day that members of the Proud Boys—a right-wing group—ចោទថា ស្រែក anti-LGBTQ slurs at a Drag Queen Story Hour event in a library in the San Francisco Bay Area.

អានបន្ថែម

They Are Racist; Some of Them Have Guns. Inside the White Supremacist Group Hiding in Plain Sight. (ProPublica)