A year after launching a barnstorming tour of the nation’s colleges, delivering at each stop controversial speeches designed as much to trigger protests from an increasingly energetic antifascist movement as they were to introduce racist ideas to America’s youth, Richard Spencer is hanging it up.
On February 28, the American Freedom Law Center, a Michigan-based anti-Muslim hate group, announced it would be filing an amicus curiae (also called “friend of the court) legal brief in support of President Donald J. Trump’s “extreme vetting” policy to screen incoming refugees for possible terrorist ties.
The screaming blocks out all other sound. In more than two minutes of footage, the only words audible above the girls’ sobbing: “Get in the car.” “Mom!” “Where is she going?” “Are you guys alone?” “Yes.”
A June trial date has been set for two of the three people charged with attempted murder during a shooting after Richard B. Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida.
After a shakeup among his attorneys and a bad weekend for Richard B. Spencer, the booking agent for the racist “alt-right” front man has dropped a lawsuit seeking to force Ohio State University to host a speech.
Jonathan Kolanowski, a supporter of white nationalist Richard Spencer, was arrested last Sunday evening after allegedly aiming a gun at individuals who were members of an anti-fascist organization.
It could have been a triumphant weekend for racist “alt-right” front man Richard B. Spencer capped by a victorious speech at Michigan State University.
For years the Conservative Political Action Conference has had an extremist problem –– budding white nationalists, young and excited leaders of the racist “alt-right” and angry voices in the anti-LGBT movement all cozying up with conservative political leaders and hoping to have their voices heard.
William Henry Fears was indicted in the state of Texas’s Harris County District Court on February 20, 2018 for “Assault of Family Member - Impeding Breathing.”
