Man Who Dreamed of Restarting Aryan Army Charged with Hate Crime
Bill Morlin
August 02, 2016
Federal hate crimes charges are being brought against two Ohio men accused of beating a black man with a broom handle during what authorities describe as an unprovoked racial assault in Toledo.
One of the two suspects, Charles E. Butler Jr., 33, told Ohio prison officials last year that he was fascinated with and hoped to restart a racist group, the Aryan Republican Army. The band of domestic terrorists successfully robbed 22 banks in the mid-1990s, hoping to use the loot to start a race war.
Butler and Robert A. Paschalis, 25, were arrested on state assault charges following the May 18 assault and charged last Friday and now face federal charges of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The law, enacted in 2009, makes it a federal crime to assault someone because of their race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or disability ...
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/08/02/man-who-dreamed-restarting-aryan-army-charged-hate-crime