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Only One Arrest After Video Shows Several Neo-Nazi Gang Members Attack Mixed-Race Family In Texas River While Yelling ‘White Power!’, Report States

Juan Ignacio — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:04:24 +0000

Authorities are investigating a racially charged fight that was caught on video between members of a neo-Nazi prison gang and a mixed-race family in Texas.

The Texas Observer reported that a group of ten family members and friends were tubing on the San Marcos River in the town of Martindale on June 22 for a birthday celebration when several members of a white supremacist gang confronted and physically attacked them.

Footage obtained by the Observer shows several people, both Black and white, brawling in a river in front of numerous bystanders. Viewers can see some people throwing punches and shoving people into the water.

A video shows a brawl on the San Marcos River at Don’s Fish Camp in Martindale, Texas. (Photo: YouTube/The Texas Observer)

In the moments leading up to the attack, the neo-Nazi group started harassing and quarreling with the family, according to witness reports. Someone was heard calling a biracial teenager using a rope swing at the river, “Tarzan.”

A verbal argument ensued between the neo-Nazi group and the family. One family member put their hands up to try to calm the situation, but someone ran into her and shoved her into the water, starting the melee. In the chaos, someone was reportedly heard shouting, “White power!”

In a now-deleted Reddit post, one victim described how the members of the “neo-nazi gang” had “swastika” tattoos and “other nazi symbols” on their bodies. The victims told the Observer that one person suffered a concussion, facial swelling, and a bruised retina, resulting in partial vision loss, and another received a bruised eye during the fight.

Despite numerous people being involved in the attack, police arrested only one of the alleged assailants, who was part of the gang. He was charged with misdemeanor assault causing bodily injury that was classified in the police report as a gang-related crime motivated by “Anti-Multi-Racial Group” bias.

Source: Only One Arrest After Video Shows Several Neo-Nazi Gang Members Attack Mixed-Race Family In Texas River While Yelling ‘White Power!’, Report States

Haiti Gang Violence Unprecedented, Says UN Chief

Juan Ignacio — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:25:52 +0000

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A special envoy with the United Nations has stated that the rising level of gang violence in Haiti is threatening the country’s stability, echoing statements by the Secretary-General in a new report.

According to reports, the last three months of violence perpetrated by gangs in Haiti have been some of the worst seen in decades. As a result, according to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, their efforts to combat illegal trafficking and to help the country’s government maintain certain functions, including the judiciary have been severely impacted. “The situation is grave,” he remarked in an internal report.

“Years of hard-fought recovery gains are being undone, and Haitians are grappling with setting the country back on a path to democracy,” United Nations Special Representative Helen La Lime said as she briefed the Security Council on Tuesday (Jan. 24). She would go on to state that there were 2,100 murders and some 1,300 kidnappings recorded in Haiti last year, with the battle for turf between the G-Pep and G9 coalitions causing havoc in neighborhoods like Petionville and Cité Soleil.

This included rampant sexual violence against women, with 40 women being assaulted in one stretch in October in the Croix-des-Bouquets area. “This violence is part of well-defined strategies designed to subjugate populations and expand territorial control,” La Lime related. The international body estimated that gangs controlled 60% of the capital city of Port-au-Prince last December.

Secretary-General Guterres admitted that there is uncertainty concerning the nation’s electoral calendar for the year because of the impact of the violence, in addition to growing difficulties in helping schools to remain open and keeping roads open to facilitate the transport of needed food and fuel to northern districts because of gang blockades. “Amid the ongoing cholera outbreak, the lack of fuel has further undermined access to health services owing to restrictions on movement and to the impact of fluctuations in the supply of water and electricity on the functioning of medical facilities,” the report said.

Source: Haiti Gang Violence Unprecedented, Says UN Chief