By David Futrelle
Three white supremacists have been charged with attempted murder after one of them fired at a group of antifascist counterprotesters after a speech by neo-Nazi celebrity Richard Spencer at the University of Florida in Gaineville yesterday.
The Miami Herald reports:
Just before 5:30 p.m., just as protesters outside Spencerās speech at UFās Phillips Center were wrapping up, Gainesville police said the trio started heckling some anti-Spencer protesters with Hitler chants, Nazi salutes and threats. At one point, cops said, convicted felon Tenbrink pulled out a gun and the brothers encouraged him to use it.
He fired a single shot that missed the group, police said, then sped off in a silver Jeep. An off-duty Alachua County Sheriffās Office deputy spotted the car 20 miles out of town around 9 p.m. and arrested the group. The Fears brothers are held on million dollar bonds in the Alachua County jail. Tenbrinkās is $3 million.
Surprise, surprise: Two of the three were amongst the alleged “very fine people” marching with their fellow white supremacists in Charlottesville.
Tenbrink, 28, and William Fears, 30, were spotted at Charlottesville, the site of the largest white nationalist gathering in years that erupted in violence. Fears identifies himselfĀ on Twitter asĀ āCharismatic leader of a White breeding cultā andĀ tweetedĀ āblood and soil,ā the notorious Nazi slogan.
This is terrorism, plain and simple. It’s appalling the story isn’t getting more attention in the media.
Here are some tweets with more details on what happened.
3 white supremacists arrested in Florida for shooting at anti-racism protesters https://t.co/zn6bUBqFK3
— Vox (@voxdotcom) October 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/efoster_eric/status/921495556790325248
āKill themā: Three men charged in shooting after Richard Spencer speech https://t.co/gqCXtWSmD3
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 20, 2017
And these three aren’t the only violent white supremacists who should be getting a lot more attention from the press — and the cops.
Who are the white supremacists assaulting people at rallies in Berkeley, Charlottesville and Huntington Beach? We found some of them: pic.twitter.com/fL5yzyI8Om
— ProPublica (@propublica) October 19, 2017
A Cali racist groupāthe Rise Above Movement_is full of violent felons. Law enforcement pays it little attention: https://t.co/8AFZS9HVsO
— ProPublica (@propublica) October 19, 2017
The ProPublica piece is a long one but I think a necessary read for anyone concerned with the rise of a violent fascist movement in US.
— š³ļøāšSpacedad (@SuperSpacedad) October 20, 2017
My thoughts exactly.
Meanwhile, everyone in the White House continues to lie about Trump’s shockingly callous treatment of a grieving Gold Star mother and the congresswoman who has stood up for her.
Specifically, this entire John Kelly story is fiction. Not one bit of it actually happened. pic.twitter.com/eGSQU0S3wc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/921452065338953729
Hey @realDonaldTrump I know how much you love calling out FAKE NEWS so hereās your daughter-in-law quoting a transcript that doesn't exist. https://t.co/TheR8FGrWY
— shauna (@goldengateblond) October 20, 2017
"He knew what he signed up for"
Kelly: I told him to say it
DJT: I didn't say it
LaraT: I saw the transcript
Sanders: There's no transcript— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) October 20, 2017
Don TrumpJr. has thrown himself into the fray though he apparently has trouble telling black women apart.
https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/921064156610088962
Rachel Maddow has a pretty convincing theory on why Trump doesn’t want to talk about Niger: that the 4 US soldiers died in part as a result of the Trump administration alienating the government of Chad, which pulled its troops out of Niger after Trump put the countryĀ (a longtime ally in the war on terror) on his alleged non-Muslim ban list for an extremely stupid reason.
Maddow connects the dots on how Trump adding Chad to his travel ban may have gotten soldiers killed in Niger https://t.co/PYk203GxVM
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) October 20, 2017
In a whole other arena of terrible, things are even worse in Puerto Rico than official reports acknowledge:
Real death toll in Puerto Rico is probably 450 ā much higher than official count https://t.co/msCyhMDyyQ
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 18, 2017
But our country still has its heroes. Along with Rep. Wilson and all those working diligently to save lives in Puerto Rico, there is this dude:
A man in an apartment on Connecticut Ave. mooned President Trumpās motorcade to the Embassy of Kuwait tonight, per the pool report pic.twitter.com/ifGC8ycXat
— Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) October 19, 2017
Here are some cute animals because we all need more of them this week. And every week these days, frankly.
everything is terrible so hereās a baby lion cub learning to roar pic.twitter.com/JZpZGj69FJ
— shauna (@goldengateblond) October 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/921260735119970307
https://twitter.com/ItsMeowIRL/status/921245209526132742
It’s sad that I’m very pleasantly surprised that these fascists were even charged. Not surprised it isn’t getting much media coverage though.
Two things.
If you have to describe yourself as charismatic, you probably aren’t.
What is a white breeding cult? Anyone else thinks this is code for raping white women in the hopes that they get pregnant and either choose to keep the baby or are unable to obtain an abortion? I will so not be surprised if some missing women are found in his basement.
Cripes. Breeding cult even makes them sound like animals. A group of people who believe that people who don’t look like them are animals.
I seriously hope you’re wrong about the basement
Just three lone wolves doing their lone wolfing thing…
Besides the glaring fact that neo-nazi terrorists are let off lightly, I suppose it didn’t get more coverage because nobody was shot. But someone could’ve easily been killed.
“Charismatic leader of a white breeding cult” – I suppose it was “satire”.
Be interesting to see what Spencer has to say about this.
As for Kelly, I was always mystified by the fawning press he got. And not just the press: even many non-media people on the left seem to have nothing but praise for him. In America today, it appears that stars on a uniform dazzle onlookers into partial blindness. This is not healthy.
thanks for always sharing shauna’s Twitter gems. she’s one of several people that I’ve recently discovered have blocked me on Twitter for completely mysterious train reasons. my best guess is during the height of hemorrhage gamergate I ended up on a lesser-known block list or something.
Does anyone know what happened to the white supremacist who fired his gun during the Charlottesville protest?
They’re white so they probably have mental health issues. /snark
I saw this first thing this morning via Twitter. So glad no-one was hurt this time.
The other USian horror that followed that story on my TL: the NRA’s new video, in which they claim:
Link from @EyesOnTheRight š
I’m trying to avoid thinking about what’s going on with this, because it’s terrifying.
ETA: David F., thanks for the cute animals as always.
I clearly need to appropriately trim the video of my cat trying to stalk a raven that was staring at her.
Mish, I saw that awful NRA video.
Has Loesh and the NRA completely flipping forgotten how JFK was killed? Lincoln? Garfield? McKinley? Reagan survived an assassination attempt.
What the FUCK is wrong with these assholes?
God, I detest this stupid administration. Everything is awful. >:(
I agree with PeeVee. š
That dog reminds me a bit of my Gaea. Tell her no enough times, she’ll act like she’s too good for your sandwich and she didn’t even want it anyway. B-baka!
I really don’t like how gun-ish this sounds -_-
PeeVee:
(To the tune of Everything is Awesome)
Everything is Awful!
Everything is shit
When your president’s Trump
Everything is Awful
And the NRA sucks!
Have you examined why that might be? I mean you recently brought up in here the linguistic style of saying men and females as if you’d never heard of it before despite the fact you’ve been commenting here for a long time and women bring it up all. the. time.
This is just fucking disgusting and I want to not talk about it, so here’s off topic shit from my personal life.
Potential TMI warning.
So, two stories from my local library today.
I’d completely forgotten how to access the library wi-fi, so I walked up to the circulation desk and the librarian said “How can I help you, ma’am?” just really quickly and automatically and it made me feel so great!
It also turned out when I got to the library I remembered I hadn’t gone before I left home. So I tried to hold it, and that did NOT work at all. So I had to decide between using the library restrooms or leaving the library like two hours early. I wound up choosing the library restrooms and I got paralyzed with indecision because while the librarian had immediately gendered me correctly, I didn’t know if anyone else would. I wound up going into the men’s room which scared the fucking crap out of me when a guy walked in a minute after I did and I had to wait for him to leave first.
It reminds me of the time I was at work (Before I quit) when I accidentally went into the women’s restroom and only figured it out after I did my thing. And it felt right but also scared the hell out of me because I wasn’t out at work.
Final note…
I definitely, absolutely, FINALLY have legitimate boobs even without padded bras and stuff. They’re tiny but real and I’m so deliriously happy.
Okay, I will comment on this line:
“White breeding cult”
Considering cults are by definition abusive and controlling, and sex without consent is always rape, and controlling someone removes any possibility of consent, he’s just admitted he either currently is or aspires to be a rapist of multiple people. Specifically, white women – but I don’t think any of us here are fool enough to think he’d stop there.
Oh, god effing damnit, I just realized these guys are from H-Town.
At least the majority of the city doesn’t truck with this fashy nonsense. Those Identity Europa posters go up all the time and they always come down within the same hour. H-Town don’t fuck with this gar-bahj. It’s a huge city, but it’s multicultural and gay-friendly so the trash tends to stay in its own awful little pockets.
Love from Montrose, home of Pride. We’re a lovely city and we do not suffer these fools gladly.
@Sandra
I’m sorry you’re going through that kind of stuff. I’m glad you were correctly gendered though and about your happiness with your chest. š
Strength, Sandra. ?
Horrorfan510, *giggles* Thanks!
In other crappy news:
https://wydaily.com/2017/10/20/gloucester-man-charged-with-terrorism-after-ied-explosion-near-cw-nws/
Congrats on your boobs, Sandra! Boobs are great (and a reason to get pretty bras, which is great too!) (if one wants boobs, of course!).
As for the story. At least they got arrested and have somewhat proper bonds.
I’ve been getting loads of news stories about sexual harassment following Weinstein and I’m starting to get… Tired. It’s great that it’s going out there and that things are, hopefully, changing more in the right direction at least there, but it’s so much. And it’s still only the tip of the iceberg. I just lost my faith in humanity a bit. Blergh. Still, onward!
@IgnoreSandra
Congratulations on getting your own boobs sister!
EDIT: NRA
That video is grade A cult grooming material.
@Mish
Life has become parody. That’s all I can say. This woman sounds like something a cult blares constantly on his speakers while handing out grenades and jogging suits.
Congrats to whoever mooned Trump’s motorcade…hope it becomes a massed protest thing next time he shows his bewigged orange features here in the UK…
Since the shooting happened in Florida, they’ll just hide behind the SYG defense and get off scot-free. Watch.