Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear. Those arrested came from at least 11 states, including Illinois.
The men were standing inside the truck wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and beige hats with white balaclavas covering their faces when Coeur d’Alene police stopped the U-Haul and began arresting them on the side of the road.“They came to riot downtown,” Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said at a news conference.
Police found riot gear, one smoke grenade, shin guards and shields inside the van, White said. They wore arm patches and logos on their hats that identified them as members of Patriot Front, he said. Videos of the arrest posted on social media show the men kneeling on the grass with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.Police led the men, one by one, to the front of patrol cars, took off their masks and then brought them to a police van.
“It appears these people did not come here to engage in peaceful events,” Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris told a Coeur d’Alene Press reporter.
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31 Patriot Front members arrested near Idaho pride eventAuthorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear. The men were standing inside the truck wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and beige hats with white balaclavas covering their faces when Coeur d'Alene police stopped the U-Haul and began arresting them on the side of the road.
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31 Patriot Front Members Arrested Near Idaho Pride EventAuthorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear.
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31 Patriot Front members arrested near Idaho pride eventAuthorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear
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31 Patriot Front members arrested near Idaho pride eventAuthorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of...
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31 white supremacist group members arrested near Idaho pride eventAuthorities arrested 31 members of a white supremacist group near an Idaho pride event after they were found packed in a U-Haul truck with riot gear.
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