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New emails show Tennessee law enforcement focused on counter-protesters at a neo-Nazi eventA Tennessee Homeland Security official said the white nationalist Traditionalist Workers' Party was "typically not the issue."
LUKE BARNES APR 30, 2018, 12:23 PM
A series of emails sent between Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officials over the past few months reveals law-enforcement was focused on counter-protesters at several recent events organized by the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP), rather than the neo-Nazis themselves.
In one particular email, dated March 13, Tennessee Office of Homeland Security Intelligence Analyst Misty Phillips addresses concerns about neo-Nazi protesters attending the panel, writing that TWP is typically not the issue, but rather opposing groups.
The cops focus on counterprotestors appears to have emboldened the neo-Nazi group. Matthew Heimbach, former leader of the TWP, posted on a group chat days before the event that he had talked to the cops ahead of the rally and been reassured that they would avoid any security issues.
So basically I think if the Reds act up, they are gonna get billy clubbed so, cant complain, he added.
TWP has a history of violent behavior and advocates for a whites-only ethnostate. During a TWP rally at Sacramento in 2016, seven people were stabbed and nine others hospitalized during clashes with counter-protesters. TWP also took part in the Charlottesville rally last year and bragged about the death of 32-year-old counter-protester Heather Heyer in internet chatrooms.
https://thinkprogress.org/tennessee-law-enforcement-focused-on-counter-protesters-neo-nazi-event-97f56fa537b7/
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New emails show Tennessee law enforcement focused on counter-protesters at a neo-Nazi event (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Apr 2018
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Takket
(21,702 posts)1. No surprise. They won't turn in their own.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Yeah
Just something to keep in mind when Dear Leader pulls the trigger on Rosenstein and Mueller and the mass demonstrations begin.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,134 posts)3. 2018, and smoky eye makeup is the problem, not vicious racist fucks.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)6. Right
We see where the MSM priorities are huh?
procon
(15,805 posts)4. Southern state, KKK, white cops, neo-Nazis... yeah, that's a match.
They looked at the counter-protesters as outsiders, foreigners, liberal, Democrats, people with the wrong skin color, so they had no rights.
dalton99a
(81,700 posts)5. Kick
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)7. K&R