Patriot Front

2022 - 6 - 11

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National leader of Patriot Front among those arrested at Idaho pride ... (The Independent)

Tom Rosseau, from Dallas, Texas, formed the Patriot Front in 2017 while still a teenager.

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31 tied to hate group charged with planning riot near LGBTQ event ... (The Washington Post)

Police in Idaho arrested 31 people who had face coverings, white-supremacist insignia, shields and an “operations plan” to riot near an LGBTQ Pride event on ...

Police had been in contact with the FBI “all day,” he said. He lamented that the Pride gathering would be “allowed to parade through all of Coeur d’Alene,” saying that “a line must be drawn in the sand” against such LGBTQ displays. White did not mention a connection between the Panhandle Patriots event and the arrests. Authorities had been aware of online threats leading up to the weekend, White said, so police had increased their presence in the city’s downtown. An onlooker taunted the group, yelling, “Losers!” Some of the other men arrested also have been linked to the group.

Police arrest 31 Patriot Front extremists near Idaho Pride event on ... (The Guardian)

Police detained 31 members of the Patriot Front hate group after they were spotted piling into a U-Haul truck wearing riot gear.

Police had stepped up their presence in the area during the event. Officials spotted the truck soon after and pulled it over, he said. All 31 were charged with conspiracy to riot, a misdemeanour, White said.

31 Patriot Front members were arrested near an Idaho Pride event (NPR)

Police said the men were planning to riot in several areas of downtown Coeur d'Alene.

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Patriot Front Members Detained on Way to Crashing Pride Event ... (Newsweek)

In a video, police are seen detaining over 20 masked individuals, reportedly discovered in the back of a U-Haul en route to a Pride event in Idaho.

Patriot Front is, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a Neo-nazi group that began in Texas in 2017 in the aftermath of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, rebranding after one of its members hit and killed counter-protester Heather Heyer with a car at the infamous event. Thirty-one members of the group were arrested at the event, according law enforcement. "Oh look, white nationalist 'Patriot Front' tried to crash a Pride event in Idaho today using their patented U-Haul box truck transport system and got busted," Filipkowski wrote.

What is the Patriot Front? What to know about the far-right group ... (The Spokesman-Review)

Kootenai County law enforcement officials arrested 31 men from a far-right hate group known as Patriot Front on Saturday in Coeur d'Alene.

Some Patriot Front stickers and flyers have been seen in Spokane in the past. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds. The group is based in Texas but has membership across the country.