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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

Criminals! They are out there! Especially Racist Criminals who Marched at Charlottesville.
From the Daily Beast [thedailybeast.com].

More than a year after a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, its cheerleaders are still being arrested for alleged racist attacks.

Brandon Higgs, 24, was arrested in December after he allegedly hurled racist slurs at construction workers in suburban Baltimore and shot one. Four new hate crime charges were added to his case last week. Higgs had a long history with hate, chat logs from 2017 reveal. Those chats, where he talked of murdering black and Jewish people, reveal his connection to a network of other prominent racists, several of whom have been charged or convicted in violent attacks since the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

I'm not saying, but maybe it is a good idea to track these racists and, like, arrest them before they commit racist crimes? But that is just me, I guess, not most racist police departments.

The December incident allegedly began when Higgs walked a dog through wet concrete that black construction workers were pouring on a driveway. Higgs allegedly addressed the workers with racist slurs and told them to “go back to Africa.” He allegedly went home, got a handgun, and came back to the site, where he resumed insulting the workers and shoved one before drawing the gun on them. He allegedly shot one of the workers during the struggle.

Higgs, who pleaded not guilty, claims he fired in self-defense after the men attacked him. He faces two counts of attempted murder and first-degree assault, in addition to the new hate crime charges. For Higgs’ hate crime charges to stick, a jury will have to rule that he attacked the black construction workers on the base of their race.

First, if you go home to get your gun, it is not self-defense, it is racist stupid. Second, if you shoot someone after having gone home to get your gun, it is malice aforethought, or what we call murder one. And if you did this because of race, hate crime murder one. This poor idiot is so hosed.

One picture Higgs shared in June showed him marching a white supremacist rally in Pennsylvania. He was carrying the flag of Vanguard American, the fascist organization that James Fields Jr. marched with at Unite the Right before he murdered an anti-racist demonstrator.

You don't say. Could he not have been arrested before he actually shot someone?

The Clark brothers became infamous in late 2018. Edward, 23, killed himself hours after neo-Nazi Robert Bowers allegedly massacred 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. The Clark brothers and Bowers appeared to be connected on the extremist-friendly social media site Gab, leading to speculation that Edward and Bowers had communicated prior to the attack. In December, Jeffrey Clark was arrested on weapons charges. The 30-year-old had openly praised Bowers on Gab, and had allegedly plotted to “expedite” a race war with an attack of his own.

Or, perhaps, just arrest everyone on Gab, so that TMB can sleep comfortably at night, and not have to worry about anti-Native Americans trying to kill him for being Jewish. (Eds: last line an easy to edit add-on. Clip at your convenience.)

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