After activist Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville, Va., members of the radical movement Antifa formed an alliance of “Nazi hunters” to fight their enemies. The so-called Heather Heyer Brigade claims to defend minority communities from potential right-wing violence. But when members show up at alt-right rallies they are prepared to use violence themselves. "These radical strategies have played right into the alt-right's plan," this article says, "and led to a backlash."
From Reveal:
Read Full Article »As word spread through the black bloc, Dominic and his crew ran to confront their targets. One protester shot pepper spray at Gibson and Toese, who quickly retreated behind a line of watching police.
Keith Campbell, another antifa target with a history of rabid Islamophobia, fell to the ground and was kicked and hit. Campbell considers himself a journalist but had spent the days before the rally tweeting that he would be bringing a “heavy duty monopod” for his camera to Berkeley “to double as a weapon.” Campbell also told Reveal that he is a member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government organization whose members had at one point been expected to serve as the protective forces for the right at Gibson's Crissy Field rally.
“What does he deserve? He deserves potentially stitches or broken bones,” Dominic said of Campbell. “He wasn't gonna get killed that day, we were strategic.”
