The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/tag/white-nationalists/)
The number of hate groups operating across America rose to 1,020 in 2018 as President Trump continued to fan the flames of white resentment over immigration and the country’s changing demographics, according to a new report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Law enforcement efforts to avert the kind of violence seen in Charlottesville last year and Portland, Or., this year would be boosted by anti-street gang strategies, say two researchers.
The central Tennessee cities of Shelbyville and Murfreesboro are preparing for demonstrations Saturday by white-nationalist groups. Many fear the rallies could turn violent like the August demonstration in Charlottesville, Va.
“We cannot be the next Charlottesville,” says Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice in Boston, where two white nationalists are expected to speak.
George Washington University’s Program on Extremism found that 18 prominent white nationalist accounts, including that of the American Nazi Party, have seen a sharp increase in Twitter followers to a total of more than 25,000, up from about 3,500 in 2012.