Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio in entrance of the Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho, earlier than his arrest in reference to the storming of the Capitol. The Miamian, as soon as a frontrunner of the group, is not in cost.
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Florida noticed a pointy improve in anti-Semitic incidents final yr, in response to a brand new report from the Anti-Defamation League, the New York-based group that tracks anti-Semitic incidents and different extremist exercise throughout the nation.
The state noticed a 50% improve in anti-Semitic incidents in 2021 in comparison with the yr earlier than, and Florida had the third most anti-Semitic incidents of any state within the nation, behind solely New York and California, in response to the report. Nationally, 2021 noticed a 34% improve in anti-Semitic incidents throughout the nation.
The ADL discovered that Florida is dwelling to an overlapping community of white supremacists and anti-Semitic teams answerable for organizing quite a few rallies and distributing hateful propaganda. All instructed, the ADL’s Heart on Extremism discovered greater than 400 cases of white supremacist propaganda being distributed between January 2020 and August 2022.
The report additionally notes that Florida is dwelling to the most individuals charged in reference to the January 6 riot, together with members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
The report highlights nationwide anti-Semitic teams, such because the Goyim Protection League, which has a Florida presence and has organized occasions in Florida, in addition to teams such because the Nationwide Socialist Motion — an brazenly pro-Hitler group — that’s led by a Florida man, Burt Colucci, of Kissimmee.
The teams organized quite a few rallies all year long, together with demonstrations outdoors the conservative group Turning Level USA’s Pupil Motion Summit in Tampa in July 2022, a Might 2022 protest outdoors Walt Disney World and a February demonstration outdoors the Daytona 400. The teams displayed indicators with anti-Semitic slogans and Nazi imagery, equivalent to swastikas, together with anti-LGBTQ and racists messages.
At a January 2022 rally in Orlando close to the College of Central Florida campus, three demonstrators, together with Colluci, had been charged with assault after allegedly attacking a Jewish pupil and stealing the telephone he was utilizing to report them. The three males are scheduled to go to trial on the finish of October.
The Goyim Protection League, in the meantime, led a 15-day anti-Semitic tour in Central and South Florida in Might 2021, by which the group demonstrated outdoors Jewish establishments and drove round a van coated in anti-Semitic slurs. Dominic Di Giorgio, a Port St. Lucie member of the group who helped it set up its on-line presence, drove 5 different Florida members on the same “tour” of southeastern Texas later that yr throughout which Di Giorgio was arrested and charged with utilizing a tool that allowed him to flip between two completely different license plates on his van.
The report notes that 11 Florida members of the Proud Boys had been amongst these arrested in reference to the storming of the Capitol, although the group’s then-leader, Enrique Tarrio, of Miami, didn’t take part as a result of he had been arrested two days earlier in reference to the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a church in Washington. Tarrio nonetheless faces prices of seditious conspiracy for his alleged position in planning the assault on the Capitol.
Tarrio, who has reportedly been a authorities informant up to now, indicated earlier this yr to the Miami New Times that he was stepping down from management of the group and would begin a brand new group. A number of members of the Proud Boys maintain seats on the Miami-Dade Republican Govt Committee.
No less than seven members of the Oath Keepers arrested in reference to the January 6 assault are Florida residents. A leak of information from the group confirmed hundreds of Florida residents had signed up for the group, which particularly targets present and former members of the army and legislation enforcement for membership, although it isn’t clear what number of of these persons are energetic members and nonetheless dwell in Florida.
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