OC Alt-Right Can't Deny Associations With White Hate Groups & Neo-Nazis
For a group who hates being labeled as members of white hate groups and constantly attempts to stay in good optics, OC's alt-right sure does love allying themselves with people who fit the bill. A recent ProPublica piece exposed one of the men who attacked this Weekling and the men we saw beating up antifa at the Huntington Beach MAGA March as members of a violent white hate group called Rise Above Movement. Part of the piece showed how The Red Elephants figurehead Vincent James Foxx was a supporter of the group by helping both incite and later glorify their violent actions via his outlet. Members were also accepted among OC's alt-right and were spotted at three of Juan Cadavid a.k.a. Johnny Benitez's anti-immigrant Laguna Beach vigils; one on May 28, 2017, another on June 25, 2017 and on July 30, 2017. The Weekly questioned Cadavid twice about his association with R.A.M. via Twitter and both times he avoided questions, only tweeting on August 8, 2017 "I can't speak for RAM but I wouldn't say living next to RAM is the same as living next to the cartel connected gangs of Santa Ana."
"Stop being a cuck!" The Red Elephants tweeted on July 24, 2017. "Go join @Rise_Above_Mvmt."
Then came the Hammerskin members (a neo-Nazi skinhead group) Matthew Gregory Branstetter, Spencer Anthony Currie and Skyler Segeberg with Branstetter and Segeberg originally being spotted at the HB MAGA March. Hatewatch did a piece on R.A.M. when they were still under the name D.I.Y. Division and a screenshot provided by the Weekly to Hatewatch showed R.A.M. met with the Hammerskins the day of the MAGA march. These same skinheads have been seen training with R.A.M. and often fighting alongside them at events. Meanwhile Currie is the vocalist and Segeberg the drummer for the skinhead-affiliated band Hate Your Neighbors which played alongside bands like Definite Hate (who mass shooter Wade Michael Page used to play with) at the October 1, 2016 Hammerfest in Georgia. The most troubling skinhead though is Branstetter who, according to info provided to the Weekly by reporter Ali Winston, was charged with assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and grand theft person with sentencing enhancements for committing a hate crime in 2011 which an OCDA press release says stems from a "hate crime attack for beating and kicking robbery victim while yelling anti-Semitic slurs."
Segeberg attended at least three of Cadavid's vigils, posed for photos with the local alt-right and the Weekly spotted Cadavid personally greeting all three of the Hammerskins at the August 20, 2017 vigil. When the Weekly asked Cadavid via Twitter about them showing up to his event, he claimed to know nothing about the group but defended them by tweeting "I don't get paid by prostitutes and drug dealers to stalk everyone who comes to my events. They're patriots, their past is not my problem."
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