Police in Idaho arrested 31 people who had masks, white supremacist insignia, shields and an “operations plan” to riot at a park hosting an LGBTQ Pride parade on Saturday afternoon, authorities said. Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said authorities received a tip about a “little army” loading into a U-Haul truck at a hotel Saturday afternoon. Police from the city, county and state pulled over the truck about 10 minutes later, White said.
Many were wearing logos from the Patriot Front, a white supremacist group that rebranded after one of its members plowed his car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville in August 2017, killing anti-racism protester Heather Heyer.
They came to riot downtown,” White said, with documents “similar to an operations plan that a police or military group would put together for an event.
He did not see firearms at the scene of the arrest, he said, but stressed that the situation was “very fresh. We haven’t begun to do interviews.
He said the people in the truck would be charged with conspiracy to riot, a misdemeanour. More information from officials probably will not come until “Monday at the earliest,” White said, but more charges are possible. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said their first court appearance probably would be Monday.
Authorities had been aware of online threats leading up to the weekend, White said, so police had increased their presence in downtown Coeur d’Alene. Two Swat teams and officers from the city, county and state assisted in the arrest.
The people in the truck were from several states, but jail authorities had not booked them all before the Saturday afternoon news conference, White said. White said police had been in touch with the FBI “all day.
Source: IOL
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