Three men charged after protesters shot at following Richard Spencer speech
- Tyler Tenbrink and brothers William and Colton Fears charged in Florida
- All three white nationalists were also present at Charlottesville rally
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After an incident that occurred less than two hours after the white nationalist Richard Spencer finished speaking at the University of Florida on Thursday , three white men were arrested and charged with attempted homicide.
According to the Gainesville police, the men chanted “Hail Hitler!”, gave Nazi salutes and fired a gun at a group of protesters about a mile south of Spencer’s venue.
According to a researcher at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Tenbrink has attended at least seven white supremacist events. He is also a convicted felon, according to the police.
Brothers William Fears, 30 and Colton Fears, 28 of Pasadena, Texas, “encouraged [Tenbrink] to shoot at the victims”, police said. William Fears has been affiliated with Vanguard America and the Patriot Movement, according to Carla Hill, a researcher with the ADL Center for Extremism. He was seen jabbing a flag at counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, she said, “and screaming the whole time”.
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All three men were present at the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, Hill said. That weekend, a car attack after clashes in the streets left at least 19 counterprotesters injured and killed a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer. James Alex Fields, 20, who was photographed with Vanguard America at the rally, was charged with second-degree murder.
Spencer has repeatedly said that he and his supporters are not violent and those who protest against him are the real threat.
At his speech to hundreds of people at the University of Florida’s Phillips Center on Thursday afternoon, he rejected accusations from the audience that he was responsible for violence carried out by followers of the “alt-right” movement
Not surprising, 35 years in prison for each of them.
The only surprising thing is that they didn't shout "Heil Trump" when they shot into the crowd.
I wonder if POTUS will tweet about it.
Maybe he'll pay for their legal defense. (Using someone else's money of course.)
I don't know anyone who can appreciate these nuts. I don't want to see them any more than anyone else.