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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.

In the end, there was none.

I didn't see any cops during this story.

18) As some additional background: The first time I filmed Blood Tribe was when the group came armed to protest a drag show in Wadsworth, Ohio.

I had never heard of them at the time, but I found out who they were shortly after recording this.
19) Then, in July, the Blood Tribe posted and quickly deleted public plans on Telegram to protest a pride event in Watertown, Wisconsin.

There, they carried rifles and called for blood.
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.


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22) In addition to my and @davedeckerphoto's video reporting from yesterday, I've uploaded my full photoset from yesterday's coverage here.

All @N2Sreports work is available to license.

news2share.com/start/2023/09/…
@davedeckerphoto @N2Sreports 23) A lot of accounts particularly with anti-Ukraine leanings have been harping on the presence of “Boneface.”

It should be noted that Boneface’s apparent time in Ukraine was unpaid - he says he was not on the payroll of the military etc.

telegra.ph/INTERVIEW-WITH…
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."

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

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