A man standing next to me (the one wearing the leather jacket) was shot and badly wounded by an alt-right Milo fan working with her husband; he survived, but only after months in the hospital. I was covering it for the Southern Poverty Law Center. 7/26 - ThreadSky

davidneiwert.bsky.social • 53 days ago

A man standing next to me (the one wearing the leather jacket) was shot and badly wounded by an alt-right Milo fan working with her husband; he survived, but only after months in the hospital. I was covering it for the Southern Poverty Law Center. 7/26

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davidneiwert.bsky.social•53 days ago

I was a witness at the trial of the couple. It ended in a hung jury, led by a couple of MAGA jurors who refused to let the shooter (who essentially admitted she pulled the trigger) face conviction or jail time. The rest of the jury voted to convict her. 8/26

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/28/1888326/-The-Hokoana-trial-Inside-the-Antifa-shooting-incident-the-media-don-t-want-to-talk-about

davidneiwert.bsky.social•53 days ago

A little over three months after the Seattle riot, I found myself in the middle of the Proud Boys’ first event: April 15, 2017, in Berkeley. It was in fact probably the most violent of the 20-plus far-right events I covered from January 2017 to June 2022. 9/26

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/04/17/far-right-descends-berkeley-free-speech-and-planned-violence

davidneiwert.bsky.social•53 days ago

It was full to the gills with neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and militia radicals—terms I do not use loosely. Some of them turned up in Charlottesville a few months later. 10/26

davidneiwert.bsky.social•53 days ago

The next big confrontation came in Portland, Oregon, on June 6, 2017. It occurred only a week after an unstable alt-right figure who had marched with the rally organizers had stabbed two men to death on a commuter train. 11/26

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/06/defiant-alt-right-patriots-encounter-portlands-simmering-anger-after-train-killings

davidneiwert.bsky.social•53 days ago

City officials and other counter-organizers urged them to wait a week. They refused. As it happened, there was relatively little violence that day. Similarly, a far-right rally later in August was relatively calm. 12/26

davidneiwert.bsky.social•53 days ago

A couple of weeks later, though, there were a few physical confrontations when Joey Gibson, organizer of the Portland rally, and his “Patriot Prayer” crew traveled to the Evergreen State campus in Olympia to protest the “cancel culture” there. It was ugly. 13/26

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/16/evergreen-state-protest-patriot-group-dwarfed-angry-response

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