This weekend’s celebration in Washington, D.C., to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States has been marked by controversies and mishaps. Adding to the drama surrounding the celebrations, a white supremacist organization used the opportunity to march in the nation’s capital. Images of Patriot Front, and of locals’ reactions to its members, have spread across social media, leaving Republicans distancing themselves from the group and its rhetoric. Images of white supremacists go viral Journalist Phil Lewis posted a picture, captured by a Reuters photographer, of a Black woman looking on with an expression of dismay as she sits surrounded by masked Patriot Front members in a Washington, D.C.-area Metro subway car. As of Monday morning, Lewis’ post had received more than 4 million views and been shared more than 8,000 times on X. “I’m sorry but this wins photo of the year and I pray she’s okay,” journalist Dawn Montgomery said of the photo and the woman it captures. Various other images, including some posted by The Washington Post, and others photographed by Getty Images photographers, captured Patriot Front members in the D.C. Metro system and rallying in the city, carrying American and Confederate flags and chanting that they were going to “Reclaim America!”
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