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The reinstatement of Boris Mihajlovic to active duty at HMCS Tecumseh has caused controversy after Mihajlovic was investigated by the Royal Canadian Armed Forces about his online past, which allegedly linked him to white supremacy and anti-Semitism. A Calgary-based Leading Seaman (LS) is back to active duty at HMCS Tecumseh, following several months of investigations by the Royal Canadian Armed Forces about his online past, that allegedly linked him to white supremacy and anti-Semitism. “We find this decision absolutely outrageous,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, director of the anti-Semitism campaign at Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Toronto. Boris Mihajlovic’s online involvement, linking him to a violent neo-Nazi website called IronMarch, was exposed by anonymous hackers last fall. “It’s time now for us to be able to move forward,” said Commanding officer Joseph Banke, with the Calgary based HMCS Tecumseh, in a leaked video to Armed forces members that was posted online by UnicornRiot, a website that dedicates itself to exposing root causes of dynamic social and environmental issues.

via ctvnews: Calgary navy member reinstated following investigation into alleged white supremacist past

siehe auch: Return of sailor with white supremacist past sparks protest in navy. Members of a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve base in Calgary say they’re upset at how the Armed Forces readmitted a sailor identified by CBC News as the former administrator of a neo-Nazi forum. Four sailors at the HMCS Tecumseh Naval Reserve base reached out to CBC to speak out against the Royal Canadian Navy’s decision to readmit Leading Seaman Boris Mihajlovic without, they say, reassuring them that he’s no longer a threat. In December, CBC News identified Mihajlovic as Moonlord, one of the former administrators of Iron March, a notorious neo-Nazi hate forum that gave rise to the terror group Atomwaffen Division. The site closed down in 2017. “The command team never acknowledged the situation. Even last year, they brought everyone together to address [CBC’s] article, but they never said his name, they never said what he did. It was really on the down-low,” said one sailor who spoke on condition of anonymity because they fear reprisals from their superiors. Reached by CBC at that time, Mihajlovic said he regretted his actions and he had taken steps to turn his life around. He sought counselling with Life After Hate, a group that helps extremists recover, and volunteered with an immigrant support organization.

We are learning more about Orangevale resident Andrew Casarez who has been unmasked as the alleged leader of a neo-nazi group. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office used social media posts to convince a judge to allow them to search Casarez’s home. It’s an unprecedented move that may have prevented Casarez from carrying out serious crimes, the sheriff’s office said. Casarez has been identified by the sheriff’s office as the leader of a neo-nazi hate group called the “Bowl Patrol.” (…) Earlier this month the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office served Casarez a gun violence restraining order along with a search warrant for an Orangevale residence related to him. “He was putting some anti, we’ll say some racist rhetoric on an assumed Facebook page that was not under his actual name. It was under the name Vic Mackey,” Nelson said. Investigators believe Casarez uses the pseudonym Vic Mackey online. (…) Officers discovered several items inside the Casarez residence including a black gun case with two empty magazines, and a semi-automatic pistol. “Whatever firearm they seized inside that house was his,” Nelson said. They also found a skull and crossbones t-shirt with a bowl cut hairstyle printed on the front. The Southern Poverty Law Center says the bowl cut hairstyle photoshopped into pictures is meant to convey a sense of approval for the actions carried out by the now-convicted mass murderer Dylann Roof. Roof’s bowl-style haircut is the inspiration for the name “Bowl Patrol,” a group experts say is extremely dangerous.

via cbslocal: Handgun Seized From Orangevale Home Of Alleged Neo-Nazi Group Leader Andrew Casarez

Police in Minneapolis say a man known as “Umbrella Man”, seen damaging property in the city during the Black Lives Matter protests, has links to white supremacy groups. People took to the city’s streets following the death there in May of George Floyd, an unarmed black man. Police say Umbrella Man helped turn the largely peaceful protests violent. Footage of the man wearing a mask and carrying an umbrella while smashing shop windows went viral online. In the video, taken on 27 May, Umbrella Man can be seen breaking the windows with a hammer as people approach him trying to get him to stop. He then walks away from the scene. Police said he also sprayed a message on the doors of the store. It sparked questions as to who the man was and his motives. (…) According to the Star Tribune, the man was identified following an email tip-off. The email claimed the man was a member of the Hells Angels biker gang. An investigation found that the man was also connected to the Aryan Cowboys, a prison biker / street gang. The Anti-Defamation League identifies them as a white supremacist group based primarily in Kentucky and Minnesota.
A search warrant by Minneapolis Police claims that the man has previous convictions for domestic violence and assault. It was these previous arrests that officers claim helped them identify the man. They compared images taken from the incident in Minneapolis to previous booking photos. The warrant claims that the man’s size and eye, nose and brow area match that of Umbrella Man. It is also alleged that the man was involved in an incident last month in which a Muslim woman was confronted by a motorcycle group wearing Aryan Cowboy leather vests.

via bbc: Umbrella Man: Minneapolis suspect linked to white supremacists

siehe auch: ‘Umbrella Man’ went viral breaking windows at a protest. He was a white supremacist trying to spark violence, police say. With an umbrella in his left hand and a hammer in his right, the man in black lobbed his weapon so nonchalantly into an auto parts shop’s windows that it surprised many others in Minneapolis marching nearby in a May 27 protest after George Floyd’s death. Soon after the abrupt attack, the mostly calm demonstration near a police precinct erupted into looting and arson — the first fire in riots that eventually caused $500 million in damage and left two people dead, the Associated Press reported. For weeks afterward, activists and Internet commenters homed in on a viral video of the figure nicknamed “Umbrella Man,” speculating that his intent was actually to turn the peaceful protests destructive. On Tuesday, Minneapolis police identified him as an affiliate of a white supremacist group that allegedly sought to “incite violence,” according to a search warrant affidavit filed in the Hennepin County District Court. The Star Tribune first reported of the warrant. The 32-year-old man has not been charged; Affidavit: Hell’s Angels member believed to be ‘Umbrella Man’ spotted inciting violence during George Floyd protests. A man who was spotted inciting violence during the George Floyd protests, known as “Umbrella Man” due to the umbrella he was carrying, is believed to be a member of the Hell’s Angels and an associate of the Aryan Cowboys biker gang, according to an affidavit. A search warrant application filed Monday in Hennepin County District Court states, on the afternoon of May 27, a man seen wearing all black and carrying an umbrella was spotted walking along the front of a Minneapolis AutoZone and smashing out the windows with a sledgehammer. The AutoZone was kitty-corner from the Minneapolis Third Police Precinct.