#idaho pride event: 31 men with ties to patriot front were arrested after planning to riot at a pride event

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#blue lives matter #unless they're not killing black people #or they're stopping terroists #idaho #idaho pride event: 31 men with ties to patriot front were arrested after planning to riot at a pride event

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U-Haul Full of White Supremacists, Preparing to Disrupt Pride Event, Arrested in Idaho Dozens of members tied to the white nationalist group Patriot Front—which formed in the aftermath of Charlottesville—were seen kneeling in the grass on Saturday, hands zip-tied behind their backs. In the parking lot of a hotel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho on Saturday, a group of extremists were dressed and ready to go. “We received a telephone call from a concerned citizen who reported that approximately 20 people jumped into a U-Haul wearing masks, they had shields, and ‘looked like a little army,’” Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White explained during a news conference, shortly after police, following that tip, arrested 31 individuals for conspiracy to riot. Police said they are believed to be affiliated with the white supremacist group Patriot Front, a splinter of the neo-Nazi group Vanguard America that formed in the wake of the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Footage from the scene showed a mass of men dressed in clothing associated with Patriot Front— white balaclavas, navy shirts, and khaki pants—kneeling in the grass, their hands zip-tied behind their backs, the Daily Beast reported. Many of them wore “logos representing Patriot Front, which rebranded after one of its members plowed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens,” the Washington Post reported, adding that the group’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, was among those arrested. Only one was from Idaho; the rest were residents of at least 11 other states, Politico reported, including Washington, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Local and state law enforcement pulled over the group’s U-Haul—headed to a nearby park where a pride event was taking place—within about 10 minutes of receiving the tip, White told reporters Saturday. Inside, authorities found 31 individuals with “shields, shin guards, and other riot gear with them, including at least one smoke grenade,” White said, noting police also seized “paperwork” that “appeared to be very similar to an operations plan that a police or military grou https://www.instagram.com/p/Cev4aSpr3JZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=