White nationalist who ran for Senate arrested in Florida
Source: AP
MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) A white nationalist who ran for the U.S. Senate in Florida and was a featured speaker during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, domestic violence and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.
Augustus Sol Invictus, 36, was arrested Monday at a Florida mall by Brevard County Sheriffs deputies on a warrant issued out of South Carolina, the Miami Herald reported. Jail records described him as an out of state fugitive.
The Herald noted that news of the arrest was first reported on Twitter by the journalist Nick Martin, who focuses on covering hate and extremism in the U.S.
Invictus, an Orlando-area attorney, has called for violent uprisings. During his 2016 Senate bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, he got widespread attention for claiming that he killed a goat and drank its blood as part of a pagan ritual. He failed, however, to win the nomination from Floridas Libertarian Party to challenge Rubio.
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)dem4decades
(11,304 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Recommended.
Cirque du So-What
(25,975 posts)If you're gonna have delusions of grandeur, go all the way.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)We all have our issues.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)ChazInAz
(2,572 posts)TwilightZone
(25,479 posts)The jokes just write themselves.
Archae
(46,345 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Sol Invictus my ass.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Igel
(35,356 posts)share his "classical" (as in Roman-era) beliefs. Sol Invictus, indeed. Someone pagans should be happy to have on their team. (After all, we lump all evangelicals together--apparently a fine practice. Just like others lump all Muslims or Jews together. Why not the same with pagans?)
Not that sane, reasoned people would ever do something like build their views or even religion around something so atavistic.
Oh, and happy new year, blessed solstice, and merry Xmas to you.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)And also, poor goats.