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A brand new Anti-Defamation League report has discovered an “in depth” community of White supremacists and different far-right extremists in Florida, which the group says is dwelling to the most individuals charged within the January 6 revolt.
“Florida is dwelling to an intensive, interconnected community of white supremacists and different far-right extremists,” the Anti-Defamation League says within the report, warning that new teams have surfaced within the state in recent times whereas present teams “have broadened their viewers each on-line and on the bottom.”
The anti-hate group’s findings are documented in a brand new report titled “Hate within the Sunshine State: Extremism & Antisemitism in Florida, 2020-2022.”
Citing information from the George Washington College Program on Extremism, the report says Florida is dwelling to the most individuals charged in reference to the January 6 revolt.
About 34.4% of these people “preserve ties to extremists within the state together with Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters,” information from the ADL’s Middle on Extremism exhibits.
The state has been a “main hub of Proud Boy exercise and affect” since Proud Boys chief Enrique Tarrio, based the Miami chapter, the report says.
The Justice Division has charged Tarrio and 4 different leaders with seditious conspiracy in reference to the January 6, 2021, assault in June, and all 4 have pleaded not responsible, CNN beforehand reported.
Florida has 15 chapters of the Proud Boys which might be “actively recruiting new members,” in accordance with the report.
The report says a current leak of membership information exhibits some 2,700 folks have signed up with Oath Keepers utilizing addresses in Florida. Whereas that doesn’t “essentially point out current Florida membership or exercise within the group” its recruitment efforts within the state are “nonetheless troubling,” ADL says.
An Oath Keepers cell from Florida used a military-style “stack” formation to enter the Capitol on January 6, in accordance with the league. CNN in July reported that members held a coaching session on “unconventional warfare.”
At the least seven members from Florida have been charged in connection to occasions that day.
Florida has additionally “turn into a hotbed for ‘America First’ and Groyper exercise in recent times,” the report says.
These teams, a lot of whose leaders and members have not too long ago relocated to Florida, search to bar immigrants, oppose rights for LGBTQ+ folks and “protect white, European-American id and tradition,” in accordance with the report.
The report additionally highlights an alarming rise in antisemitic incidents and hate crimes within the state over the previous two years, noting that the variety of reported incidents of antisemitism rose by 50% in 2021 over 2020.
The ADL’s Middle on Extremism additionally recorded the distribution of greater than “400 situations of white supremacist propaganda” within the state from January 2020 to August 2022.
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