California police investigating a violent white nationalist event worked with white supremacists in an effort to identify counter protesters and sought the prosecution of activists with “anti-racist” beliefs, court documents show.
The records, which also showed officers expressing sympathy with white supremacists and trying to protect a neo-Nazi organizer’s identity, were included in a court briefing from three anti-fascist activists who were charged with feloniesafter protesting at a Sacramento rally. The defendants were urging a judge to dismiss their case and accused California police and prosecutors of a “cover-up and collusion with the fascists”.
Defense lawyers said the case at the state capital offers the latest example of US law enforcement appearing to align with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups while targeting anti-fascist activists and Donald Trump protesters after violent clashes.
“It is shocking and really angering to see the level of collusion and the amount to which the police covered up for the Nazis,” said Yvette Felarca, a Berkeley teacher and anti-fascist organizer charged with assault and rioting after participating in the June 2016 Sacramento rally, where she said she was stabbed and bludgeoned in the head. “The people who were victimized by the Nazis were then victimized by the police and the district attorneys.”
Steve Grippi, chief deputy district attorney prosecuting the case in Sacramento, vehemently denied the claims of bias in an email to the Guardian, alleging that anti-fascist stabbing victims have been uncooperative and noting that his office has filed charges against one member of the Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), the neo-Nazi group that organized the rally.
Some California Highway Patrol (CHP) investigation records, however, raise questions about the police’s investigative tactics and communication with the TWP.
Felarca’s attorneys obtained numerous examples of CHP officers working directly with the TWP, often treating the white nationalist group as victims and the anti-fascists as suspects.
The TWP is “intimately allied with neo-Nazi and other hardline racist organizations” and “advocates for racially pure nations”, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its leaders have praised Trump, and the group claimed to bring more than 100 people to the Charlottesville white supremacist rally, where a counter-protester was killed.
Just…imagine this dude sitting alone in a dark room, with Confederate and swastika flags on the walls, bathed in the light from his computer monitor, wearing a maga hat, and silently, solemnly listening to Bob Marley and pretending it’s about white ppl
Wolfenstein, for those who don’t know, is a videogame series with soon to be eleven entries in the series, all of them entirely centred around killing Nazis ever since the very first game in 1981.
‘way to make it political’ buddy do you know what series this is
Bethesdantifa
The game’s setting is a Nazi-controlled America where the campaign is liberating the United States from nazis. In which the phrase “make America nazi-free again” is absolutely on the nose.
It’s like these people see any sort of buzzword and jump on it before actually knowing what the deal is. That’s how dedicated they are to defend nazis.
Reminds of that CoD:WWII tweet that mentioned female soldiers, and showed an actual picture of women snipers from the Soviet Union, and dudes were saying shit like “there were no females fighting in the 40’s, it’s revisionist! etc.”. Disregarding the very real picture with the post and female resistance fighters. Their thinking is so bizarre.
We cannot erase history! I know, I know, its unfortunate that the only method we’ve got to document historical events are huge statues celebrating racists, but there is simply no other way!
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