Alabaster Audacity: White Supremacists &…
Members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front marched through downtown Washington carrying American and Confederate flags. According to GWN’s “White Supremacists March in Washington D.C.” report, they gathered outdoors a public transit station before marching during the nation’s 250th Independence Day celebration.
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The group, estimated to embrace about 400 members, wore matching blue shirts, khaki pants and white face masks masking a lot of their faces. Video printed by GWN confirmed members boarding a subway prepare alongside members of the public before persevering with through Capitol Hill carrying both American and Confederate flags.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, Patriot Front was based after the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The group identifies Patriot Front as a white supremacist extremist group that seeks to set up an all white ethnostate and promotes the idea that white Americans are entitled to the United States because of their ancestry.
GWN reported that counterprotesters shouted at the group while journalists documented the march. The outlet said the demonstration remained principally peaceable during its coverage despite heated exchanges.
“Great American State Fair Attendees Accost National Guard, on Video”
According to GWN’s “Great American State Fair Attendees Accost National Guard, on Video” report, frustrations mounted after harmful climate compelled organizers to evacuate the Great American State Fair.
The honest was one of a number of Freedom 250 occasions disrupted by excessive heat. Video captured by GWNDC confirmed attendees confronting National Guard members after authorities prevented people from coming into the event following the evacuation.
Footage printed by GWN confirmed attendees booing National Guard members and chanting “USA, USA” while servicemembers maintained a perimeter outdoors the venue.
Although feelings ran high, GWN reviews that the confrontation remained principally nonviolent.
The America’s Independence Parade was then canceled because of the climate. At the time of publication. GWN states that President Donald Trump’s scheduled look later that night appeared more and more unsure as climate circumstances continued to deteriorate.
“Plot Twist?”
As storms swept across Washington, another second shortly gained traction online.
X consumer Sami Gold posted that he had taken shelter inside the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture alongside what he estimated have been roughly 5,000 Trump supporters.
“Currently trying to evade the DC storm by staying in the African American Museum with 5,000 Trump supporters,” Gold wrote.
Gold later shared a video exhibiting the museum’s crowded foyer, including, “When I say 5,000 I mean like 5,000.”
The posts gained hundreds of thousands of views. Gold’s estimate of the group dimension has not been independently verified.
Happy 4th.
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