via Left Coast Right Watch

As time went on, several within the Charlie Kirk vigil began to falsely accuse Sanchez’ group of being “Antifa.” Pointing to their masks, several began shouting at masked members of Patriot Front and Active Clubs to “show their face.” Several times, as the rhetoric from the white nationalist groups became even more explicit than usual, vigilgoers attempted to pray loudly and unsuccessfully to drown them out.

One man, carrying an American flag, taunted the group with several others. Calling them “un-American,” and “traitors,” he followed them to a parking garage several blocks away where the group was walking through. Suddenly, about a dozen began kicking and hitting him. The group then fled into the parking garage.

  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Afterwards, Anthony, the man who was attacked told LCRW that he did it because he “hated Nazis.” Though the man espoused several conspiratorial right-wing beliefs in an interview, he told LCRW that the neo-Nazis that beat him up were “traitors.”

    Wow.

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      7 hours ago

      Imagine how far these folks could go if they had just taken a single Critical Thinking 101 course.

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    One man, carrying an American flag, taunted the group with several others. Calling them “un-American,” and “traitors,” he followed them to a parking garage several blocks away where the group was walking through.

    Following a group like this, either by yourself or with a small group, isn’t particularly smart.

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      22 hours ago

      Nope, not very. I know I definitely learned a pretty obvious lesson on how to avoid walking into an ambush from reading it.

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        21 hours ago

        And it’s easy to see why. This is a group who’s taken great lengths to hide their identity, and presumably want to leave the area with their anonymity intact.

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    Why do folks call these “groups” and “organizations?” Even if they have members in the White House now, they are still just common street gangs. People need to stop bestowing legitimacy on these thugs and call them out as the criminals they are.