On WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen,” Raw Story reporter Jordan Green discussed his four-month investigation into the 2119 Blood and Soil Crew, a nationwide network of teenage Nazis, and its connection to anti-semitic and racist vandalism in downtown Pensacola and East Hill, including bricks being thrown through windows at Jewish places of worship.
He explained the hidden meaning of “2019.”
“It’s a numeric code for ‘Blood and soil,’ a Nazi slogan of the Third Reich,” Green said.
The local teens that were arrested for the crimes had communicated with other Nazi teens “well before the attacks in Pensacola.” One of the teens, Waylon Fowler, has become a leader of 2119. Photos of a brick thrown at Jewish places of worship have been used to recruit more teens.
“(2119) networked online through Telegram,” the reporter shared. “They have members across the country and basically take these crimes and collect footage of it, and then incorporate it into propaganda videos, which they use to try to recruit and encourage other teenagers to commit similar acts across the country.”
Green continued, “They are really young teenagers who talk about and admire people who carry out mass shootings and industrial sabotage. Their kind of ‘bread and butter’ criminal activity is vandalism targeting to intimidate Jews, African-Americans, and LGBTQ+ people, but their online rhetoric and aesthetic shows that they aspire to more extreme violence for sure.”
He said after the Pensacola arrests, 2119 capitalized on the incidents. “They kind of positioned Waylon Fowler as a so-called ‘martyr’ for their cause of white power, and they incorporated literally a cutout of the photograph of the brick from news accounts and spread it online, and it became their kind of icon of action. They would use it to build clout within the larger white supremacist network.”
Listen to the entire interview: here.
Green’s two-part series, “Inside the neo-Nazi hate network grooming children for a race war,” is behind the Raw Story paywall, but the subscription fee is minimal.
