Chicago police are on the lookout for threats to the Pride parade after neo-Nazis targeted similar events elsewhere.
"We want our officers to be focused on not only the intelligence that they're hearing about what's happening in Chicago, any potential threats so that we can have those addressed so we can have anyone who might do harm to anyone there dealt with swiftly," he told reporters at a news conference.
He said he had a message for anyone considering disrupting the parade:"We are going to be vigilant to ensure that this event, as well as others, go off safely," he said."And we'll hold you accountable if you're planning if you're doing anything to jeopardize the safety of others." Patriot Front has also recently spread propaganda in Tinley Park, Naperville and other parts of Illinois, according to the group's Telegram channel. And in April, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Garland was among four members of Patriot Front who allegedly vandalized a mural of famous Black Americans at Washington University in St. Louis.
David Goldenberg, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's midwest office, said Patriot Front aims to"reclaim the United States as a white nation" and typically attempts to"co-opt" conservative events. Yet the targeting of the Pride event in Idaho appears to be a first, said Goldenberg, who noted that those on the far-right are baselessly attempting to associate the LGBTQ+ community with pedophilia.
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