4 California White Supremacists Charged With Rioting At Last Year's Rally In Charlottesville, Va.

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/653814575/4-california-men-charged-with-rioting-at-last-years-rally-in-charlottesville-va

by Laurel Wamsley
October 2, 2018

Four men connected to a white supremacist group based in California have been arrested and charged with rioting at last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va.

The United States Attorney Office announced today that Benjamin Drake Daley, 25, Thomas Walter Gillen, 34, Michael Paul Miselis, 29, and Cole Evan White, 24, all of California, were all arrested there early this morning by federal agents. Each has been charged with one count of violating the federal riots statute and one count of conspiracy to violate the federal riots statute. Prosecutors say the men flew in from the West Coast "with the intent to encourage, promote, incite, participate in, and commit violent acts in furtherance of a riot."

"These four committed particularly violent acts in Charlottesville," U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen said in a news conference Tuesday. "They committed violent acts in California, at other rallies. Therefore, in our view they were essentially serial rioters."

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[skeeter]

California's skinhead movement, eh?

When was the last time the skinheads rioted in Berkeley, Huntington Beach and San Bernadino?

Something tells me this story might not be an accurate representation of reality.

[Sanguine]

Never heard of them:

The criminal complaint alleges that the four are members or associates of "a militant white supremacist organization" called Rise Above Movement (RAM). The affidavit says that Daley is prominent in the organization, The Associated Press reports.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, RAM refers to itself as the "premier MMA (mixed martial arts) club of the Alt-Right."

"R.A.M. operates like a street-fighting club," ADL says in a web page about the group. "Members actively train to do physical battle with their ideological foes, and have been involved in violent clashes during political rallies and demonstrations. While they consider themselves part of the alt right, R.A.M.'s membership has deep roots in California's racist skinhead movement, and includes individuals who have faced serious criminal charges, including assault, robbery and weapon offenses."