Category: Lawsuits

Would-Be Cop Killer, Son of Racist Leader, Shot Dead

Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Crime, Hate Groups, Klan, Lawsuits, White Supremacist by Mark Potok on April 1, 2008

Sometimes, violence just seems to beget more violence.
Last Friday, the 30-year-old son of Frazier Glenn Miller — a white supremacist icon of the 1980s who went to prison for defying court orders to shut down his paramilitary White Patriot Party — was shot to death by a Marionville, Mo., police officer who he’d just wounded [...]

Taking on the Klan

Posted in Hate Groups, Klan, Lawsuits, White Supremacist by Mark Potok on July 25, 2007

This morning, the Southern Poverty Law Center followed up an earlier lawsuit against two Klansmen by filing a complaint against their organization, the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), and three additional individuals (full story here). Both legal actions are based on the savage July 2006 beating by several IKA members of a 16-year-old boy at [...]