Many of us here in the northeast think all these white supremacists are down South and Midwest not here in New England but they are here! Fall River Massachusetts had white supremacists protesters.
Neo-Nazis disrupted a drag event in Fall River. Organizers said they won't be discouraged.
The Herald News
By Audrey Cooney
December 15, 2022
A group of organized neo-Nazis disrupted a children’s event featuring a drag artist in Fall River this past weekend, with organizers vowing to not be discouraged from putting on future events.“It was the most unsettling thing I’ve seen with my own eyes in a really long time,” said Sean Connell, President of the Fall River Pride Committee. “I think it’s so imperative to stay out here in the face of hate like this.”
On Saturday, Dec. 10, the Fall River Pride Committee hosted a drag story time at the Fall River Public Library, which featured a performer in drag reading children’s books. Connell said they’ve hosted 14 of the events so far, one every month for more than a year.
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Video and photos from the event show a group of around 20 people on the sidewalk outside the library on North Main Street, dressed in black and with masks and bandanas covering their faces and a large banner that read “drag queens are pedophiles!” At times, they performed the Nazi salute and chanted things like “faggot scum off our streets” and “131,” ostensibly a reference to NSC-131, a New England-based neo-Nazi group.
Fascists! Right here!
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists hate groups here in Connecticut in Norwich, Canterbury, Waterbury, and one group is listed as statewide. In the northeast they list; 6 Maine, 3 Massachusetts, 5 New Hampshire, 17 New York, 3 Rhode Island, and 2 Vermont so don’t think that it can’t happen here because we are a blue island. We have sickos just like in Republican states.
* Music Man, “Ya Got Trouble”
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Bias or hate crimes are crimes motivated by the perpetrator's bias or attitude against an individual victim or group based on perceived or actual personal characteristics, such as their race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. Hate/bias crimes have received renewed attention in recent years, particularly since the passage of the federal Hate/Bias Crime Reporting Act of 1990 and the New York State Hate Crimes Act of 2000.Bias-related incidents are behaviors which constitute an expression of hostility, against the person or property of another because of the targeted person's race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, or disability. According to New York Penal Law Section 485, a person commits a hate crime when he or she commits a specified criminal offense and either:
- intentionally selects the person against whom the offense is committed or intended to be committed in whole or in substantial part because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct, or
- intentionally commits the act or acts constituting the offense in whole or in substantial part because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct.
Sadly bias speech is not a crime we have the right under the Constitution to say the most vile and hateful things, they cross the line if they make threats or a physical assault.
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