VIDEO THREAD: Today the avowed Nazi "Blood Tribe" and "Goyim Defense League" marched in Orlando, chanting "Jews will not replace us" and "Jews get the rope."
"All heil the Führer," one would call, and the crowd would respond "Heil Hitler!"
2) As the Nazis rallied in Orlando, pro-Trump personality @LauraLoomer showed up and was immediately yelled at by the group, who called her "Laura Jewmer" and "tranny Jew."
"We're not voting Trump, Laura!" they said before sarcastically joking that they prefer DeSantis.
@LauraLoomer 3) Kent "Boneface" McLellan, a Neo-Nazi who has reportedly traveled to Ukraine to serve with the Azov Battalion, threw stiff-arm salutes and told me "I am Boneface."
"Slava Ukraini!" he yelled.
4) I asked Blood Tribe leader Christopher "Hammer" Pohlhaus (based in Maine and with chapters in Ohio and Wisconsin) why he held this larger event in Florida.
"Why you ask stupid questions?" he said. "This is just the beginning."
"Heil Hitler," his group chanted in an empty parking lot.
"Who won't replace us?" they chanted. "Jews won't replace us!"
"We are everywhere!"
5) As the group finished rallying in the parking lot, Christopher "Hammer" Pohlhaus instructed his group to "Follow the meatball!"
The group then marched into a residential area, where they yelled "white power" and "fuck you" at media.
6) While the Nazi coalition was marching through residential Orlando, @davedeckerphoto (freelancing for @N2Sreports) asked them if they're from Florida.
"Fuck you," they said. "We don't answer questions from K*** media. F****ts!"
"All F****ts, we will destroy you."
7) Jon Eugene Minadeo II, aka "Handsome Truth" told media to stop following the group as they marched presumably to their vehicles. "Don't make us ask more than once."
Another said "Ford knows better," apparently referencing a member of their group who told me to back off during a similar moment at their Wisconsin rally and subsequently chambered a round into a rifle.
He then faced away from me and held up the middle finger, just as the man had in that previous incident.
One referenced by reporting on that incident and the other said, "Took you all that time to figure it out, f****t?"
8) PHOTOS: of the Nazi rally today in Orlando led by Christopher "Hammer" Pohlhaus.
While they mostly dressed uniformly, groups confirmed in attendance were Blood Tribe, White Lives Matter, Goyim Defense League, and Vinland Rebels Fascist Action.
9) Among the most notable faces today in Orlando was Kent "Boneface" McLellan, a Neo-Nazi who says he has traveled to Ukraine to serve with the Azov Battalion.
While Nazi iconography such as swastikas, Blood Tribe logos, 88 symbols, and SS-Totenkopfs were not difficult to find, I was puzzled by the number "2218" which appears to have been adopted as well by several people in the group.
The meaning of this number wasn't explained.
11) Ahead of the other Nazi rally in Florida, a separate avowed Nazi group with ten people calling themselves "Order of the Black Sun" rallied in front of Disney World's entrance, where they ripped up a rainbow pride flag.
Filmed by @davedeckerphoto for @N2Sreports
12) The Nazis outside Disney world waved a DeSantis flag and called themselves "Ron's Holocaust task force."
"We're his biggest supporters," they claimed before saying that his support for legislation combatting anti-semitism is "smoke and mirrors."
I want to be clear that it would not be unusual for Neo-Nazis to say something like this to damage a candidate they disfavor.
@davedeckerphoto @N2Sreports 13) Asked by another reporter about former President Donald Trump, one of the "Order of the Black Sun" Nazis said that "he's a p***y, he didn't do any of the things he said he was going to do" before condemning him for having Jewish people in his family.
@davedeckerphoto @N2Sreports 14) @davedeckerphoto asked the "Order of the Black Sun" Nazis how they felt about the larger Nazi rally that would take place without them later that afternoon.
They say there's "Really not a riff" in the "white power movement" and claim to be fine with the others.
15) Here is the full @N2Sreports video of today's Nazi rally outside of Disney World, documented by @davedeckerphoto. Viewer discretion advised.
As always, all footage is available to license.
16) This is my full @N2Sreports video of today's Nazi rally in Orlando, which apparently included members of Blood Tribe, White Lives Matter, Goyim Defense League, and Vinland Rebels Fascist Action.
As always, all footage is available to license.
I do want to offer one correction to my reporting earlier.
I began my livestream with the caption "Police respond as ..." because I intended to focus largely on the police response.
20) Following the Wisconsin event, I learned from a podcast featuring their leader/founder Christopher Pohlhaus that it had been an initiation for those members.
I indeed saw the Wisconsin group’s leader out there in Florida, wearing the group’s colors.
21) The Blood Tribe had announced this march more than a month ago, but they only said it would be in September and somewhere in Florida.
It was actually anti-fascist pages that told the public it would likely be Orlando on this date, then a rumored location, and then a State Rep was the first to report the actual location as it was ongoing.
22) In addition to my and @davedeckerphoto's video reporting from yesterday, I've uploaded my full photoset from yesterday's coverage here.
24) Following their involvement in the Saturday Blood Tribe march in Orlando, it appears that the Nazi "Goyim Defense League" threw packages with flyers throughout Florida.
"Local sheriff's office told residents not to pick up the bags without gloves."
DHS, using a violent felon as an informant who they say "may be assisting law enforcement in the hopes of future payment" has charged alleged Latin Kings member Juan Martinez with soliciting the murder-for-hire of a law enforcement official in "Operation Midway Blitz."
2) According to the feds, Martinez, going by the name "monkey****" wrote on Snapchat “2k on info cuando lo agarren,” or “$2,000 on information when you get him" and "10k if u take him down."
3) While the complaint calls the alleged victim "a senior law enforcement member of the Border Patrol Operation Midway Blitz," Chicago Tribune says a source identified the alleged target as Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino.
VIDEO THREAD: Protesters briefly blocked traffic nearby the Broadview ICE facility Saturday night, but Illinois State troopers arrived, promptly shouting at them "OUT OF THE ROAD NOW!" and forming a police.
"Move back!" the troopers yelled as they used batons to push the crowd.
2) “Get back!” Yelled Illinois Troopers as they continued to push the crowd after they got off the road.
“You could have killed her” a protester yelled after another toppled over. “She hit her head!”
“Unlawful assembly!” repeated the trooper in command.
3) Illinois troopers approached and took the man who had originally led the group to march on the street onto the ground, arresting him.
“Shame! Shame!” The crowd yelled at police, calling them “Gestapo.”
VIDEO THREAD: Crowds confronted ICE agents in Brighton Park, Illinois after agents shot a woman there who they say had blocked their vehicles while armed with a gun.
Some threw objects at ICE vehicles, and agents replied by tossing tear gas out the windows and at crowds.
2) ICE agents threw tear gas into the Brighton Park neighborhood, with canisters ending up on bystander porches and under parked cars.
3) ICE, CBP, ATF, and FBI agents gathered near the scene of the shooting, where protesters yelled at them as well.
One agent danced along to chants of "No hate! No fear! ICE is not welcome here!"
VIDEO THREAD: Illinois State and local police joined forces with ICE and other federal agents to push back protesters outside the Broadview ICE facility, making several arrests Friday morning.
Unlike prior weeks, agents used blunt force rather than chemical irritant weapons.
2) As protesters attempted to block ICE vehicles from entering or exiting the facility, Illinois State troopers pushed them aside, in some cases even physically picking them up, placing them on the grass nearby, and making arrests.
ICE agents waved as they drove by.
3) "Get back!" shouted Illinois State troopers using batons as they shielded ICE agents in vehicles from the protesters.
Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills, who has previously been critical of ICE, watched the situation closely, in person.
Just now: Woman protesting outside Broadview ICE facility is shot repeatedly with sting balls, thrown to the ground, and ultimately maced point blank in the face as she attempts to block ICE agents from leaving the facility in a vehicle.
After initially appearing to let the woman go, ICE agents approached the circle of activists attempting to treat the woman’s facial burns from mace, and arrested her, bringing her into the ICE facility she has been protesting today.
Shortly after that protester who had been maced, shot with less lethals, and thrown to the ground was taken inside the ICE facility, an ambulance arrived there as well.
Documentary video thread: The New York Young Republican Club led a vigil for Charlie Kirk Friday night in New York City.
Bishop Nektarios of Diokleia led mourners in prayer: "May the God of all consolation embrace his wife and children with tender mercy and grant them strength in this hour of sorrow."
"That bullet did not kill Charlie Kirk. It made him immortal forever, a martyr in our movement!" said NYYRC President Stefano L. Forte. "We are all Charlie Kirk Now!"
2) "In Charlie Kirk's memory, let's make sure we keep free speech alive!" said Republican Mayoral candidate Curtis Silva. "Let it not be in vain!"
3) "He honestly was one of the reasons that I actually woke up and learned how to think for myself," one mourner says of Charlie Kirk.
Others praised Kirk primarily for his dialogues with college students.