A federal magistrate judge concluded today that Dianna Ploss isn't really serious about her suits against police in Winthrop and Swampscott for allegedly failing to protect her from a scary man at Trump rallies in the towns and urged a judge in US District Court to throw both cases out. Read more.
Kith and Kin in Hudson posted this morning it regrets an incident last night involving a "group of living historians" who'd just come from an annual World War 2 re-enactment in town, two of whom were still dressed as SS officers.
One patron who was waiting for a table reports he walked out when he saw the Nazis walking in and being seated. Read more
Somebody called in a bomb threat to the Somerville central library on Highland Avenue shortly before 2 p.m - the scheduled start of a drag-queen story hour, which was then cancelled as police combed the building for a bomb that didn't exist. Read more.
GBH reports a Boston-based venture firm funneled money to an effort by a New Hampshire Libertarian cryptobro who has now added GBH reports to a list of people he feels should be executed, including Kamala Harris.
A federal judge today set a Nov. 8 hearing date at which Alexander Giannakakis is expected to plead guilty to helping hide evidence that his brother set two Orthodox rabbis' homes on fire - in Arlington and Needham - also tried to burn down a "Jewish-affiliated" business in Chelsea and was involved in other white-supremacist activities in the area. Read more.
The Newton Beacon reports the boiler had sat, unused, behind several locked doors, for decades with "a 3-inch raised-iron swastika" on it until Mayor Ruthanne Fuller heard about it last week and ordered the symbol ground off.
From the complaint: Goon finger-shooting performer and parent at Taunton drag-queen story hour.
The state Attorney General's office today sued the state's home-grown Nazi group and two of its leaders on civil-rights and conspiracy charges for using violence and intimidation against drag-queen story hours, immigrants and just random people over the past couple of years, including in Jamaica Plain, the Seaport and on a pedestrian bridge over Storrow Drive. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday agreed to let Charles Murrell III, beaten by members of the white-supremacist Patriot Front rabble on July 4th weekend last year, formally alert the group's leader of his lawsuit against it by e-mail instead of in person, because the guy has been changing addresses like somebody who doesn't really want to be served with lawsuit paperwork. Read more.
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about the fresh "White Power" and swastika painted on the pathway near the Frances Appleton footbridge - the one near the Longfellow. The swastika was painted backwards.
A man who just wanted to play his saxophone outside the Copley Square library on a warm day last summer but was instead beaten by white supremacists yesterday sued the group, its Charlottesville-organizing leader and the masked "John Does" he says beat him. Read more.
The khaki bois of Patriot Front parked in Brookline Hills and took the D Line into Copley Square to pretend they really care about the Satanic Temple, holding its annual convention at the Marriott. Read more.
The ADL's Center on Extremism runs down Nazi crap in 2022, both in things such as flyers and graffiti and events at which the balaclava crowd climbs up from their parents' basements long enough to wave a flag or two before, oh, taking the Orange Line back to Oak Grove to drive back to the North Shore or New Hampshire. Read more.
The New Hampshire Attorney General's office and the city of Portsmouth yesterday filed civil-rights lawsuits against area Nazi group NSC-131 and a couple of its members for white-power banners they unfurled over Rte. 1 in Portsmouth last July 30. Read more.
A federal judge last month sentenced a member of the Massachusetts-based Nationalist Social Club to 37 months in prison after he admitted to being a felon in possession of a firearm and obtaining and possessing an unregistered firearm. Read more.
A bunch of Nazi LARPers showed up at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair in Harvard Square on Sunday to try to look as menacing and tough as one can in khakis, but bookfair volunteers managed to fend them off through the sneaky maneuver of locking the doors until the Nazis' attention span timed out after ten minutes and they left. Read more.
Woburn Police Chief Robert Rufo and Mayor Scott Galvin say an investigation into a local cop's role in the 2017 Charlottesville Nazi tiki-torch rally that ended with a counter-protester dead has confirmed that the guy was, in fact, a Nazi. Read more.
Woburn Police report that John Donnelly, suspended last week while officials looked into his role as an active organizer of the 2017 Charlottesville white-supremacy tiki parade and riot. "has resigned from his position as patrol officer and is no longer employed by the Woburn Police Department." Read more.
Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan has announced that her office will review all cases involving suspended Woburn patrolman John Donnelly. Read more.
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