The Washington Post reported that neo-Nazis visited the home Raw Story reporter Jordan Green after his reporting found Pensacola teens involved in a brick attack on a Jewish Center in Pensacola were tied to 2119 Blood and Soil Crew.
Photos the intruders posted on social media show five people wearing skull face masks. One had a shirt praising German death squads in the Holocaust. Another held a sign: “Freedom of press does not equal freedom from consequences.”
Green wasn’t intimidated and reported his investigation into 2119 on Raw Story yesterday.
Green writes about the four Pensacola white teenagers collectively charged with 18 felonies involving attacks on two synagogues, a mosque, Masonic Lodge and the Chabad Jewish Center.
Their Neo-Nazi gang started as a group of under-18 boys “united by their interest in fight training, mixed martial arts and white nationalist activism,” according to Green.
They renamed themselves “Revolutionary White Brotherhood” and later resurfaced as “2119.”
Read more.
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Dig Deeper: This press release about the boys’ arrests was issued in August 2023:
Pensacola Police investigators have made multiple arrests in the case involving multiple acts of vandalism. Most of the incidents involved graffiti containing antisemitic messages and symbols in the downtown and East Hill areas of Pensacola.
Two of the incidents involved bricks with antisemitic messages being thrown through windows at Jewish places of worship.
Charged in these incidents are:
Waylon Moon Fowler (06-13-06) who is charged with 7 counts of felony criminal mischief, enhanced to a hate crime. 1 count of misdemeanor criminal mischief, and 1 count of felony trespassing in a construction zone.
Wyatt Fox Fowler (03-29-08) who is charged with 7 counts of felony criminal mischief, enhanced to a hate crime. 1 count of misdemeanor criminal mischief, and 1 count of felony trespassing in a construction zone.
Nicholas Pearce Ferry (02-23-07) who is charged with 4 counts of felony criminal mischief enhanced to a hate crime, and 1 count of felony trespassing in a construction zone.
Kessler Alexander Ferry (01-31-05) charged with 1 count of felony criminal mischief enhanced to a hate crime.
Pensacola Police Chief Eric Randall said, “The extra hard work of investigators and many others in the Pensacola Police Department paid off today. We hope that these arrests can bring comfort and closure not only to those in our Jewish community but to all citizens of this great city.”
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves added, “We will not tolerate hate crimes in the City of Pensacola. I greatly appreciate our PPD’s superb investigative work in recent days that clearly delivers an important message: if you conduct cowardly acts of hate in this city in an attempt to hurt or intimidate, we will find you and bring you to justice.”
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Green shared his personal account of being stalked. Read here.
Don’t know if its still there but as recently as December there was still Nazi graffiti at the Community Maritime Park. I first saw and photographed it in late August when I inspected all city parks, athletic facilities and the outside areas of all community centers and gym to document their poor condition. I’d done the same in 2008 and 2016. One of the homeless people who lives at the Community Maritime Park asked me what it meant. I explained the symbology. I knew the city didn’t care. Like other city parks, the Community Maritime Park is full of broken, inoperable and rusted things. With each new mayor, the rust just gets worse. In 2017, Parks Director Cooper actually excused the unsafe condition of the Hitzman Park playground equipment telling Channel 3, “The rust went faster than we had hoped.” He earlier had said that he ignored park maintenance because Mayor Hayward wanted him to identify city parks to sell off to real estate developers. I heard him say it. Pretty shocking. I had heard Hayward say the same in 2010. Now Reeves wants to do it. Six of seven councilmembers support him. Each time I visit the Community Maritime Park, I inevitably spend far too much time picking up alcoholic beverage containers to include those left in or near the roadway. I did think the Nazi graffiti was important if it was linked to the case described above. In August, I wrote State Attorney Bowden telling her about it. It seemed important too because the graffiti was “on” city property. I also pointed out that there had been Nazi graffiti put “on” the home of Holly Benson on 9th Avenue. The PNJ had earlier in 2023 posted on its website a picture of Benson’s home with the Nazi graffiti but left it at that. That seemed important too because it was a private residence. I do think that Benson may know some of the suspects through the First United Methodist Church so perhaps the graffiti on her home was more personal. Maybe Inweekly could find out and report if the suspects have also been charged with vandalizing the Community Maritime Park and/or Holly Benson’s home. If its still there, someone does need to clean the sidewalk just down from the Community Maritime Park children’s playground to get rid of the Nazi graffiti.