The group “Blood Tribe” is vying for national attention with a swastika march in Florida. In Maine, they’re the latest out-of-state headache.
“First of all I am not a Nazi sympathizer or supporter but I still thought this country allowed people to have different opinions without being accused or cancelled,” Greear wrote. “Let me share a couple of facts. Chris was thrown out of Planet Fitness because his tattoo of a swastika on his chest was showing through his white tee shirt while working out.
Provocative group rallies are part of an effort to consolidate a white supremacist movement that has been largely decentralized since the disastrous “Unite The Right” rally in 2017, said Hannah Gais, a senior researcher at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Blood Tribe has used recent high-profile hate rallies to recruit prospective neo-Nazis across the country. In March, the group joined with other far-right organizations to hold an anti-drag rally in Wadsworth, Ohio, where Blood Tribe membersThough the anti-LGBT crowd included less-explicitly neo-Nazi groups like the Proud Boys, Blood Tribe has pushed fellow travelers to adopt a “more radical nationalism,” occasionally feuding with chapters of the Proud Boys over outward adoption of Nazi symbols.
Pohlhaus has described the event as evidence that his group can expect little pushback from police, reasoning that police will keep counter-protesters away.
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