Baltimore is at the epicenter of the national debate over police violence, particularly after last week鈥檚 release of a Justice Department report documenting deep racial disparities in policing in the city. That makes it particularly surprising, if not bizarre, to find a well-known neo-Nazi lawyer serving in the city鈥檚 Law Department and defending the Baltimore Police Department.
Micah Xavier Johnson, the man identified by police聽as the sniper who shot 12 law enforcement officers at a protest in Dallas last night, was a fan of black separatist hate groups monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center.聽
Although illegal in Europe, inciting racial hatred is constitutionally protected speech and a lucrative cottage industry in the United States. 聽
The Council for National Policy, a highly secretive group, is a key venue where mainstream conservatives and extremists mix.
For nearly 30 years, Evelyn Rich, the longtime romantic partner of white nationalist Jared Taylor,聽has been attacked by white nationalists accusing her of being Jewish. Recently, Rich聽contacted the Southern Poverty Law Center after being viciously attacked by the notorious anti-Semite, John DeNugent.聽
This morning during an interview on CNN鈥檚 鈥淪tate of the Union鈥� businessman Donald Trump repeatedly dodged questions about the Ku Klux Klan and notorious white nationalist David Duke, who announced recently his support for Trump鈥檚 campaign.聽
The number of hate and antigovernment 鈥楶atriot鈥� groups grew last year, and terrorist attacks and radical plots proliferated.
The hardline groups promoting 鈥榬eligious freedom restoration acts鈥� to justify anti-gay discrimination.
We are relieved that the ringleaders of the Malheur occupation are now in custody.
The armed takeover of a federal government building in Oregon comes amid a renewed expansion of the far-right, antigovernment militia movement in the wake of the 2014 standoff between federal agents and heavily armed antigovernment activists in the Nevada desert.
