Neo-Nazi Group Patriot Front Behind Wave of Racist Vandalism Chased out of Philadelphia

Report from Idavox about how the Philadelphia community drove the neo-Nazi group Patriot Front off the streets.

The neo-fascist group Patriot Front decided to celebrate the Fourth of July with one of their flash mobs, but were not expecting the City of Gritty to provide them with fireworks!

Neo-Nazi group Patriot Front; the organization linked to the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville and behind the wave of anti-Black racist vandalism against George Floyd statues and BLM murals last week gets run the fuck out of #Philly. https://t.co/XYxBYKeakp

— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) July 4, 2021

As the group of 50 reportedly jumped out of three Penske rental trucks marched down the street and tried to hold an impromptu rally on Dilworth Plaza just outside City Hall, they were met with passers-by who immediately began to berate and lay siege on the them chasing them off the plaza into the waiting arms of law enforcement who detained them for approximately two hours.

Great footage of neo-Nazis in Patriot Front getting heckled by people on the street and then getting run off the street. https://t.co/Cl5crMdw7S

— It's Going Down (@IGD_News) July 4, 2021

Patriot Front, a group that was splintered from another in the wake of the tragic “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va in 2017, is known for posting stickers and tags across the country and has held flash mob rallies like this before, most notably in Washington, DC. They also appeared in Nashville early last month in similar uniforms and carrying identical American flags modified with a fascia in the canton. The public began to take notice of them only in the past month or so because their tags were found in the vandalized statues of police murder victim George Floyd in Brooklyn, NY and Newark, NJ, as well as on a vandalized mural in North Philadelphia.

I'm guessing they did in fact came in those rental trucks. You friggin' dumbasses! https://t.co/cRncwzuklR

— Daryle Lamont Jenkins (@DLamontJenkins) July 4, 2021

The Patriot Front associates were lined up and stretched almost one city block at Race St. and Delaware Ave. The police eventually released them, but as state law as well as Penske rental rules do not allow for them to ride in the back of box trucks, they were not allowed to ride back as they came. Thomas Rousseau was reportedly seen at the Philadelphia rally helping trucks leave the scene as the rest of the group were escorted by police down Columbus Ave. It is not known at this time if they have left the city yet.