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13 Apr 21 7:46 am
+ White Lives Matter' rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up
Brandy Zadrozny and Ellison Barber and Kailani Koenig
Sun, April 11, 2021, 6:27 PM·
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'White Lives Matter' rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up
In semi-private, encrypted chats, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities Sunday to promote their racist movements and spread their ideologies to larger audiences.
Hyped by organizers as events that would make “the whole world tremble,” the rallies ran into a major problem: Hardly anyone showed up.
The “White Lives Matter” rallies, the first major real-world organizing efforts by white supremacists since 2018, were planned on the encrypted app Telegram after many aligned groups were alleged to have taken part in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S Capitol.
The poor showing underscores how the country’s unpopular and disorganized extremist movements have been driven underground by increased scrutiny from the media, law enforcement agencies and far-left activists who infiltrate their private online spaces and disrupt their attempts to communicate and organize.
Related: Reformed neo-Nazi explains how people fall prey to QAnon online
Few “White Lives Matter” marchers showed up Sunday, but anti-racist and anti-fascist groups gathered just the same.
In Raleigh, North Carolina, a small crowd of antifa and anti-racist protesters gathered at the park where the “White Lives Matter” march was planned. They marched around downtown behind a large white sign that read, “WE ACCEPT YOUR SURRENDER.”
The lackluster events were documented by livestreams and photos posted to Twitter.
In Philadelphia, activists tweeted photos of a counterprotest picnic with pizza and Tastykake snacks. In New York City, over a dozen counterprotesters stood seemingly unopposed across the street from Trump Tower, where a “White Lives Matter” rally was expected.
Police in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, formed a circle around a lone protester to separate him from a large crowd of counterprotesters. Three protesters assembled around a “White Lives Matter” banner outside City Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, where a police line separated them from a couple of dozen counterprotesters.
Hundreds of counterprotesters, bystanders and media members gathered at a counterprotest at the scheduled start time of a “White Lives Matter” march at Huntington Beach Pier southeast of Los Angeles.
Throughout the afternoon, counterprotesters could be seen on several livestreams chanting “Unity and community” and “Black lives matter.” A few single protesters, one of whom wore a full hood and a T-shirt with a white supremacist slogan, were run off by the crowd, who yelled “Go home, Nazis!”
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13 Apr 21 6:50 am
+ Lancaster County man on FBI most wanted list in Capitol attack, footage shows
DAN NEPHIN | Staff Writer
A man who is wanted by the FBI and is shown on video pepper-spraying police and encouraging violence near the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is a staunch Trump supporter from Ephrata, video and still footage shows.
LNP|LancasterOnline was able to identify the man by carefully comparing his social media posts to widely disseminated video and photos of the violent events that day, which followed a speech by then-President Donald Trump to thousands of his supporters in which he urged them to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the November election.
Numerous videos and photographs now inaccessible on the man's Facebook page -- which an LNP|LancasterOnline reporter and editor relied on to report a Jan. 10 story about Lancaster County residents who went to Washington, D.C. -- show the man is Samuel Lazar, 35, a self-described entrepreneur.
The FBI posted a single photograph of a man believed to be Lazar on its website, identifying him only by the number 275 and urging the public to help identify him. In the photo, he is wearing a tactical vest and goggles, and his face is painted in a camouflage pattern; he’s also holding a megaphone. A patch on his vest bears the words from Psalm 144: “Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle.”
People who know Lazar also identified the man in the FBI photo as him.
A man who answered a phone whose number is listed for Samuel Lazar on Tuesday said his name was David and hung up when an LNP|LancasterOnline reporter asked about the FBI photograph. When a reporter called the number again on Friday and Saturday, it went to voicemail with a male voice identifying himself as Sam. Messages and texts to the number were not returned. Notes left by a reporter at Lazar’s Ephrata apartment on Thursday, Friday and Saturday also were not returned. Phone and voicemail messages left for more than a half-dozen people believed to know or be related to Lazar were not returned as of Saturday evening.
It is not clear why the FBI is looking for Lazar, and he has not been charged with a crime linked to the Jan. 6 insurrection, based on a search of publicly available federal district court records for Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania as of Saturday.
Online state court records indicate Lazar pleaded guilty to a third-degree misdemeanor charge in June 2016 related to providing false information when trying to buy a gun in Millersville the year before. His attorney in that case said Friday that Lazar made a mistake on the federal background check form when answering a confusing question concerning prior convictions. Court records indicated Lazar pleaded guilty in 2013 in Lancaster County to low-level offense related to fighting and pleaded guilty in 2004 in Schuylkill County to criminal mischief and related charges.
The FBI site does not offer any description of the photo of Lazar other than to raise a plea for help in identifying participants in the Capitol violence; hundreds of other photos posted by the FBI include the same plea. Lazar’s picture was posted to the FBI’s page in late March, and the FBI tweeted it on March 25.
The FBI declined to say whether Lazar is the wanted man.
“The FBI does not comment on specific information or tips we may receive from the public; however, the tips we have received have been critical in furthering these investigations,” spokeswoman Christina Pullen said Thursday.
Pullen could not say how many people have been charged based on tips, because other factors may be involved in bringing charges.
“Information provided by the public is critical to furthering these investigations, and we encourage people to contact us,” she said. The agency asks that people who recognize anyone in photos on its site to call 1-800-CALL-FBI, or submit a tip to tips.fbi.gov.
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13 Apr 21 6:39 am
+ A California police department fired an officer who was a former Proud Boy. He says it's unfair and he never saw any 'kind of racism' while he was affiliated with them.
salarshani@businessinsider.com (Sarah Al-Arshani)
a group of people in uniform: Members of the Proud Boys gather in support of President Donald Trump and in protest the outcome of the 2020 presidential election near freedom plaza on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
The Fresno Police Department fired an officer after learning he was affiliated with the Proud Boys.
Rick Fitzgerald told Insider that he was never interviewed as part of the investigation.
He said he left the group in November but never saw any "racism" when he first joined.
A California police department fired an officer from within its ranks because it was revealed he had been affiliated with the Proud Boys.
In a statement, Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama said officer Rick Fitzgerald was fired on Friday after an internal affairs investigation was launched last month when they became aware of online images and videos that showed Fitzgerald rallying with the Proud Boys at a November pro-Trump demonstration that turned violent.
"Such ideology, behavior, and affiliations have no place in law enforcement and will not be tolerated within the ranks of the Fresno Police Department," Balderrama said in the statement. "Public trust and accountability are paramount in our ability to fairly police this community."
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11 Mar 21 11:47 am
+ CORONAVIRUS, ILLUSTRATED
COMIC: How One COVID-19 Nurse Navigates Anti-Mask Sentiment
March 6, 20219:11 AM ET
RYAN KELLMAN
NATHAN ROTT
ISABEL SELIGER
Agnes Boisvert, an ICU nurse at St. Luke's hospital in downtown Boise, Idaho, spends every day trying to navigate between two worlds. One is a swirl of beeping monitors, masked emotion and death; the other, she says, seems oblivious to the horrors occurring every hour of every day.
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11 Mar 21 10:29 am
+ House approves $1.9 trillion COVID relief package, sending bill to Biden
BY GRACE SEGERS, MELISSA QUINN
UPDATED ON: MARCH 10, 2021 / 6:57 PM / CBS NEWS
Washington — The House approved the final version of President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Wednesday, handing the new president a significant legislative victory as he works to stabilize an economy still struggling to rebound from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill, known as the American Rescue Plan Act, passed by a vote of 220 to 211. One Democrat — Representative Jared Golden of Maine — joined all Republicans in voting against the measure.
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11 Mar 21 10:20 am
+ Apple rejected Parler's latest attempt to come back to the App Store
Karissa Bell
March 10, 2021, 4:52 pm
It looks like Parler’s App Store exile will continue. Bloomberg reports that Apple recently rejected the app’s bid to get back onto iPhones, citing “highly objectionable content.”
Apple had originally kicked Parler out of the App Store in January, shortly after the riots at the U.S Capitol. Apple said at the time that the app needed to improve its content moderation and make a bigger effort to keep dangerous and hateful content off its platform. The company said the suspension would be in place “until we receive an update that is compliant with the App Store Review Guidelines and you have demonstrated your ability to effectively moderate and filter the dangerous and harmful content on your service.”
According to Bloomberg, Apple rejected Parler's latest bid to rejoin the App Store late last month. Apple reportedly told Parler that the latest iteration of its policies were not “sufficient to comply with App Store Review guidelines.”
At issue is not just Parler’s policies, but the fact that the app is still filled with the kind of “highly objectionable content” Apple wanted it to address. ““n fact, simple searches reveal highly objectionable content, including easily identified offensive uses of derogatory terms regarding race, religion and sexual orientation, as well as Nazi symbols,” Apple told Parler.
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11 Mar 21 9:45 am
+ MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s Social Media Announcement Gets The Treatment On Twitter
Lee Moran
Thu, March 11, 2021, 2:17 AM
Mike Lindell — the Donald Trump-supporting CEO of MyPillow who was booted from Twitter in January for peddling the ex-president’s 2020 election conspiracy lies — said Wednesday he is setting up his own social media network.
The platform ― called “Vocl” — will be a YouTube-Twitter crossover and launch in a matter of weeks, Lindell told Business Insider.
“It’s not like anything you’ve ever seen,” boasted Lindell, who Dominion Voting Systems is currently suing for $1.3 billion in damages for what the company describes as his “viral disinformation campaign” about voter fraud following the 2020 election.
“It’s all about being able to be vocal again and not to be walking on eggshells,” Lindell added of his incoming platform, which some commentators suggested could become a rival to so-called “free speech” apps Gab or Parler and may even entice ex-President Donald Trump, who was banned from multiple platforms including Twitter for inciting the deadly U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, into signing up.
While Trump supporters lapped up the news, critics responded with dings and alternative mocking names for the site:
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11 Mar 21 9:34 am
+ Prosecutor: Man propped dead wife on sofa in front of kids
Tue, March 9, 2021, 9:46 PM
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man who killed his wife propped up her body on a sofa, told their children she was drunk and had them open Christmas presents in front of her body, a prosecutor told jurors at his murder trial.
“This Christmas story does not have a happy ending, and unfortunately this is not just a story, it is real life,” Heather Brown, senior deputy district attorney in Orange County, said Monday as trial began for William Wallace of Anaheim, the Orange County Register reported.
Za'Zell Preston, 26, was taking college classes in hopes of becoming a domestic violence counselor when she was killed in 2011 by a man who already had served jail time for beating her, the paper said.
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07 Mar 21 6:07 am
+ The New York Times
FBI Finds Contact Between Proud Boys Member and Trump Associate Before Riot
Katie Benner, Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman
Sat, March 6, 2021, 9:08 AM
WASHINGTON — A member of the far-right nationalist Proud Boys was in communication with a person associated with the White House in the days just before the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.
Location, cellular and call record data revealed a call tying a Proud Boys member to the Trump White House, the official said. The FBI has not determined what they discussed, and the official would not reveal the names of either party.
The connection revealed by the communications data comes as the FBI intensifies its investigation of contacts among far-right extremists, Trump White House associates and conservative members of Congress in the days before the attack.
