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A sweep of arrests of a neo-Nazi group in the US has dealt a major blow to an organization associated with at least five murders and raised questions as to whether the extreme far-right movement the group is at the center of has been largely undone by pressure from law enforcement, journalists and anti-fascist activists
Five senior members of Atomwaffen Division (AWD) have been charged with federal crimes in the past weeks, including former leaders and a man who was concurrently a member of the similar neo-Nazi terror group the Base. The recent charges involve members in four states in connection with two separate criminal cases.
In Virginia, a Texas man, John Denton, 26, was charged over an alleged swatting conspiracy a practice involving making false reports about a targets address in the hope police will stage an armed raid on the address.
Denton reported by ProPublica in 2018 as involved in nearly every aspect of the organization as its leader is known inside Atomwaffen by the alias Rape. He allegedly coordinated swatting attacks in 2018 and 2019 on journalists, Old Dominion University, and a historically black church.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sweep-of-arrests-hits-us-neo-nazi-group-connected-to-five-murders/ar-BB10PbNy?li=BBnb7Kz
Some of Trump's "very fine people".
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,112 posts)wouldn't be surprised if rump is their idol. Disgusting.
Yonnie3
(17,431 posts)I suspect that there are a lot more like these out there. Hopefully the Feds won't back down on rooting out this cancer in our society.