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Feds Charge Gun Nut, an Apparent White Supremacist, in Connection with Potential Attack on Gay and Jewish Communities
A 23-year old Nevada man, an apparent white supremacist with a history of gun extremism, was arrested and charged Friday in Las Vegas.
Conor Climo “discussed attacking a Las Vegas synagogue and making Molotov Cocktails and improvised explosive devices, and he also discussed conducting surveillance on a bar he believed catered to the LGBTQ community,” the Dept. of Justice said in a statement. “The criminal complaint also describes that items seized by law enforcement during the execution of an August 8, 2019 search warrant, including a notebook with several hand-drawn schematics for a potential Las Vegas-area attack. The notebook also contained drawings of timed explosive devises.”
The DOJ’s statement adds the criminal complaint alleges “Climo was communicating with individuals who identified with a white supremacist extremist organization using the National Socialist Movement to promote their ideology. Members believe in the superiority of the white race and have a common goal of challenging the established laws, social order, and government via terrorism and other violent acts. The organization encourages attacks on the federal government, including critical infrastructure, minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community.“
As NCRM reported Friday morning, the DOJ has been blocking the release of a report that says alleged white supremacists were responsible for every single act of race-based domestic terrorism in the U.S. in 2018.
The Trump administration not only took no action to combat the growing right wing violent extremism, but actually substantially reduced or even eliminated funding and programs that combat white supremacist extremism, violence, and terrorism – and then blocked the data from reaching the hands of Congress.
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