December 5, 2021
HENRY GIBSON WEPT:
(Blake Montgomery & Zachary Petrizzo, Dec. 05, 2021, Daily Beast)
A group of white supremacists stormed through downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday evening, bearing American flags and mildly menacing plastic shields while marching to the beat of a snare drum down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. But after chanting aggressively about their plans to "reclaim America," their intended show of force stalled spectacularly when they lost their ride. [...]That is when it became clear that more than two dozen members of the white supremacist group could not leave, as they were apparently stranded. Members of the group had waited in a one-way roundabout to depart in one of the U-Hauls they had used to transport themselves for the rally. But the large rented moving van could not fit them all, so many of them were forced to wait in 45-degree darkness as the bulky orange vehicle made multiple trips over the course of nearly three hours. [...]Patriot Front was once known as Vanguard America but changed its name after a man affiliated with the group murdered a woman at the notorious Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
Posted by Orrin Judd at December 5, 2021 12:00 AM
