FBI Intercepts White Nationalist Riot Plans at Idaho Pride

A group of White Nationalists known as Patriot Front arrived in the midwestern city of Coer d’Alene Idaho with the intent to storm the annual gay pride parade scheduled to take place on Saturday.

31 people were arrested when the FBI were notified after the large group of men with their heads covered with white cloth masks topped by a khaki colored baseball cap began staking out the parade route. Patriot Front, who have history of public violence, was organized as an offshoot of another white supremacist group, Vanguard America, after the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia which saw men marching down the main street with tiki torches chanting “Jews will not replace us” back in 2017. The aggressive hate group also staged a march in Washington DC in 2020, forcing local hotels to close fearing an outbreak of violence. Members of the group carried upside-down US Flags as they were recorded shouting “Reclaim America” before releasing red and blue smoke grenades.

The men arrived in downtown Coer d’Alene with the intent to incite a riot against revelers celebrating at the Pride Parade. Armed with extensive gear including shields and body armor, as well as written, detailed plans of execution that local Police Chief Lee White described as “similar to operation plans that a police or military group would…