White nationalist group says it will be at Republican convention

Originally published June 27, 2016 at 9:22 pm
Updated June 27, 2016 at 9:26 pm

By Seattle Times staff
McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) and Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — A group of white nationalists and skinheads who held a rally in Sacramento, Calif., over the weekend where at least seven people were stabbed plans to show up at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month to “make sure that the Donald Trump supporters are defended” ...

City of Cleveland spokesman Dan Williams said the city had a “robust plan” for security during the convention.

Lenz, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said it was a “wild card” whether violence would erupt. He described the head of the Traditionalist Worker Party, Matthew Heimbach, as an ascendant leader of the white racist movement and “the new face of hate.” A video shows Heimbach shoving a female African-American protester at a Trump rally in March in Kentucky ...

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