Patriot Front formed after Charlottesville, and leaked messages reveal members are getting trained like they’re in boot camp.
By James Laporta
A leader of an emerging white-supremacist group is a Marine veteran
who uses his military experience to train other extremist recruits in
military tactics, leaked messages show.
Erik Sailors is the head of a Texas chapter of Patriot Front, a white-supremacist group that splintered from one of the main groups at the deadly white-power rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year.
Sailors gives “hip-pocket classes” (short, informal military class) to
white nationalists, from the “gear list” of what members should bring to
protests (Marine Corps-issued combat boots and decontaminate wipes) to
lessons in mixed martial arts and hand-to-hand combat techniques, the leaked messages reveal.
The
inner workings of Patriot Front and Sailors’ role were revealed after
thousands of chat messages from Discord servers, a popular internet chat
platform used by both white supremacists and neo-Nazis, were leaked to
Unicorn Riot, a nonprofit media organization.
Sailors was identified by The Daily Beast after examining photographs from a September 2017 Patriot Front protest outside a Houston community center that was hosting an Anarchist Book Fair.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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