Mere days after Alabama state representative Will Dismukes’ appearance at an event honoring Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest sparked national controversy, the 30-year-old lawmaker was arrested and charged with first-degree theft of property.
Will Dismukes, a representative in Alabama’s state house, posted Sunday on Facebook about his participation in an event that day honoring KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest. The event was hosted at the home of Pat Godwin, a longtime member of neo-Confederate hate group the League of the South.
A former League of the South member who attended multiple rallies with the neo-Confederate hate group faces disorderly conduct charges in east Tennessee.
Jack Posobiec, a correspondent for One America News Network (OANN) whose work has been embraced by President Trump, collaborated for years with white supremacists, neo-fascists and antisemites, a Hatewatch investigation has determined.
Ryan Matthew King, 42, of Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested June 20 on two charges of 3rd degree domestic violence, according to the Autauga County, Alabama, Sheriff’s Office website.
As communities across the country unite to protest killing of African Americans at the hands of police, acts of unbridled racism have simultaneously reared up in the form of cars being rammed into protests.