Weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly planning to riot at a northern Idaho LGBTQ pride event, an Idaho pastor told.
will yesterday attending can cause chaos downtown to the pride events taking place in a park. they told reporters, quote, that they came to riot. they are affiliated with a white nationalist group patriot front, who were detained after just being discovered riding in the back of a u-haul truck carrying weapons and smoke grenades. they were reported seeing a group of masked individuals all wearing the same attire, looking into the vehicle. they told police that the group, quote, look like a little army. all 31 individuals were charged with the conspiracy to riot, and among those arrested was thomas mercer, the founder of patriot front. the group was stop not far from where pride in the park was underway. that is an annual lgbtq+ event. for weeks that event has been a target of separate anti-lgbtq groups, called panhandle patriots. they deliberately scheduled a counter event on the same day as pride in the park, to, quote, go head to head with these
Police in Coeur d’Alene arrested 31 masked members of a white nationalist group suspected of conspiring to riot in the city’s downtown on the same day as a scheduled Pride