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Wed Jul 29, 2020, 11:52 PM Jul 2020

Orangevale man named as alleged white power leader called a 'danger to community'

The shadowy online white supremacist leader who is alleged to be a 27-year-old Orangevale man is one of the most violent extremists in the movement today, but his unmasking may result in his followers fleeing his influence, a researcher into American hate movements says.

Andrew Richard Casarez, who allegedly posted online for years as the “Vic Mackey,” the leader of a Dylann Roof-worshipping group known as the “Bowl Patrol,” is under investigation by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office for alleged hate crimes and earlier this month had a 9 mm firearm seized by detectives who obtained an emergency restraining order.

But public reports of his identity — first by the website Anonymous Comrades Collective on July 7 and then by the Huffington Post a week ago — may scare off followers of the Bowl Patrol, said Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Bowl Patrol is a group that posted podcasts advocating violence with about 1,000 online followers that is named for the distinctive haircut Roof sported when he killed nine Black people at a Charleston, South Carolina, prayer meeting in 2015, Miller said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article244572717.html

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