Adecade after shooting five unarmed Black protesters in Minneapolis, white supremacist Allen “Lance” Scarsella is set to be released from his prison sentence on January 5, 2026. Despite community calls for hate crime and attempted murder charges, Scarsella was convicted of felony riot and assault and sentenced to 15 years for his racially motivated terror attack on the Black Lives Matter, Justice for Jamar Clark protest encampment outside of Minneapolis Police’s 4th Precinct on Nov. 23, 2015. Scarsella was arrested by SWAT police on Nov. 24, 2015, at his parents’ suburban home. Police found the handgun used for the attack in Scarsella’s room next to a computer adorned with a German Nazi flag and a Confederate flag on the wall. He is now 33 years old. Scarsella was part of the beginning of a new wave of white nationalists using coded language and memes derived from the Internet while espousing white supremacist ideals through terminology not recognized by the larger majority of the populace. He routinely participated in armed meetups and camping trips with other racists that were organized on 4chan’s /k/ board, several of whom took part in trolling and stalking the Jamar Clark protests while armed. Since his arrest, Scarsella has been incarcerated in protective custody and was sent to an out-of-state facility to serve his state sentence. (…) Five young, unarmed Black men were shot: Cameron Clark, Walter Hoskins, Teven King, Draper Larkins, and Wesley Martin. Hoskins was shot multiple times by Scarsella who stood over him before making his getaway. King was shot in his stomach, and just a few years after the shooting, he died from the impacts of the injury. The initial seriousness of King’s injury was the reason why Scarsella was charged with one first-degree assault charge — a charge that the community felt should have been attempted murder.
via unicorn riot: White Supremacist Mass Shooter of Protesters To Be Released From Prison in First Week of 2026
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