Fort Washington, MD – On Dec. 4, 2021 around 250 members of the neo-nazi group Patriot Front marched through Washington, D.C. wearing white masks. With aesthetics echoing the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Germany, they stopped to rally by the Capitol as their leader Thomas Rousseau dedicated a speech to “we the people born to a nation of the European race.” Patriot Front would encounter antifascist sabotage that night, leaving numerous vehicles damaged or inoperative, according to an anonymous communique released weeks later. Members quickly called the police to report damage to their cars. While the law enforcement response has not led to the arrest of any antifascist saboteurs, it did generate a set of reports and videos now obtained by Unicorn Riot. Patriot Front’s yearly national event ended in humiliation, almost $10,000 in damage and ultimately led to the identification of dozens of formerly anonymous members. The hour-long video below contains every pertinent angle of the evening’s debacle. Unicorn Riot’s video investigation combined video from four different police body cameras to identify five formerly unnamed Patriot Front neo-nazis. This comprehensive documentation of the initial response to Patriot Front’s 911 call that night gives us an intimately detailed cops-eye view of the ironic and bizarre events that unfolded. Police reports documenting damaged vehicles also identify several formerly unnamed fascists. The following report and videos retrace the movements of the neo-nazi group that night, including multiple police body camera angles, and panic over public exposure. Newly released police body camera footage and crime reports obtained by Unicorn Riot show that Patriot Front added insult to their own injury by by attracting police scrutiny to their parking spot. One fleeing member driving on rims with slashed tires called the police; this led to a puzzled group of police grilling other Patriot Front members — whom they briefly suspected vandalized their own group’s property. Initially, police responded courteously to the Patriot Front member’s 911 call about damaged cars. But officers slowly became suspicious when the fascists improvised thin lies about what they and their fellow members were up to. In awkward exchanges with police the squirming young racists would not say “Patriot Front” out loud, contradicting the proud, boisterous image the group projects in its online propaganda. While the group was mobilizing in the nation’s capital to demand a white-only ‘ethnostate’ in America, antifascists were smashing, scratching and painting their vehicles parked at Riverview Park in Fort Washington, Maryland. A communique by the anonymous anti-nazi saboteurs describes the action:
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