Posted on 07/05/2022 4:43:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Law enforcement was caught off guard by a white supremacist group's demonstration in Boston last weekend, according to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
Both Wu and U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins said they were told by Boston Police and the FBI that neither agency had advance warning that about 100 members of the group Patriot Front planned to march through downtown Boston wearing face coverings.
Investigators said they are now reviewing video recordings from the scene to identify members who allegedly assaulted a Black person.
Wu said the city needs to be better prepared for the next time there's a public demonstration by a hate group.
"We will continue to work in partnership with community members as we strategize and plan and coordinate to respond to not one-off incidents, but this growing rise and trend in white supremacy and hate," she said.
Rollins said her office is "working hard" to determine if there are any federal or state charges that can be brought against the group.
"We don't want to wait until there is violence," she said. "If there are threats, we will charge those as well."
Patriot Front is a white supremacist group with chapters in over 40 states — including Massachusetts, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Thirty-one members were arrested in Idaho last month following a tip they were planning to attack a Pride event.
But police received no warnings before the march in Boston. Special agent in charge of the Boston FBI Field Office Joseph Bonavolonta said they can only intervene if they learn about a specific threat of violence in advance.
"Vile or repugnant hate speech can be at times covered by the First Amendment," he said. "If it rises to a level where there is threat or use of force or violence — that is where we can and have gotten involved in and initiated investigations."
Law enforcement officials asked the public to contact police if they have information about future demonstrations white supremacists might be planning in Greater Boston.
I’m confused. Don’t the leftists always remind us this country was founded on protest?!? Weird.
L.L. Bean Liberation Front
LMAO. Are they still trying to push this Fed performance as the real thing?
Feds, Feds, Feds, Feds…
Just FBI training academy training course.
Whatta Laff
FIBBIES stage a BS rally
Claim We Din’ Know ‘Nuttin
Then Brandon can go out and bellow about it
I agree, they should arrest all these FBI agents and throw them in jail - that would show them!
“Where Khakis go, trouble follows”
Let me guess: Khaki pants. Blue shirts. Timberland boots.
That’s cuz they were Feds, jamming all comms.
Isn’t there something in the first Amendment about the right to peacefully assemble? Or does that only apply to groups approved by the Southern Poverty Law Center?
With your connections, can you find out some sort of proof that can be shared that the majority of these groups are FBI Agent Provocateurs?
Send it to the farmers, they need the fertilizer.
40 states. Did you see that charade in Idaho?
What an operation they’re running! The Feds and media must calculate, correctly apparently, that no matter how absurdly obvious they are they will get the job done.
It’s too late, baby.
RE: Isn’t there something in the first Amendment about the right to peacefully assemble?
The article mentions that members of the group assaulted a black man. If this is true and they did it for no good reason, then THAT IS NOT PEACEFUL.
Yep, feds pushing the white supremacist hoax.
No one thinks to follow from a distance and get a license plate or anything?
No pot bellies = FBIs.
Easy peasy.
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