Antifascists Expose Rental Home of Neo-Nazis Who Attacked a Bartender in Nashville as Locals Call for Counter-Protest

Antifascist researchers at GDL Exposed are reporting that a group of violent neo-Nazis who rallied in Tennessee on Monday, July 15th with swastika flags and attacked a bartender who confronted them, are staying at a rental in Kentucky. According to a press release from Nashville officials:

Central Precinct officers tonight charged a Nazi flag carrying protestor with felony aggravated assault for using the flagpole to strike a downtown bartender who had just been involved in a physical altercation with members of the Neo-Nazi protest group…Ryan Scott McCann, 29, of Ontario, Canada, is also charged with disorderly conduct. A judicial commissioner ordered that he be held in lieu of $81,000 bond, which will require a source hearing before a Davidson County judge….McCann was part of a group of Neo-Nazi protestors who carried Nazi flags and spread white supremacist rhetoric this afternoon on Broadway at 3rd Avenue to the displeasure of passersby.

The Goyim Defense League (GDL) are known for pushing baseless anti-Semitic conspiracy theories through flyers and banner drops and openly flying swastika flags. The group’s leader, Jon Minadeo, originally from the bay area, has since moved to Florida after being exposed by local antifascists.

Nashville has seen several neo-Nazi rallies in the past few weeks, with Patriot Front holding an unannounced march through the city on July 4th. Patriot Front is a rebrand of Vanguard America, one of the neo-Nazi groups which marched in Charlottesville in August of 2017. James Alex Fields, who marched with the group, drove his car though a group of protesters, killing Heather Heyer.

According to GDL Exposed:

The neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League has been harassing and assaulting Nashville residents since Saturday as part of their 6th “Name The Nose Tour.” About 20 members of the hate group have traveled across the US and Canada to attend this event and are staying in a vacation rental property [in] Scottsville, KY.

In a video the GDL took for social media, and have now deleted, several GDL members can be seen bagging up flyers that litter communities across the country.

According to Evolve Property Management, the manager of the rental property the Nazis are staying in, the unit is reserved as for “personal use” by the property’s owner from July 12th to the 22nd; the exact duration of the GDL hate tour. We have contacted the property owner and their relatives to let them know that violent neo-Nazis are using it as a home base to attack people in Nashville, but we have not received a reply at time of publication.

GLD Exposed goes on to write that the owner of the property has a “social media presence [that] suggests that she is a far right-wing supporter and may be sympathetic to the Nazis she is hosting.”

In response to ongoing activity and violence from out of town neo-Nazis, locals are organizing a counter-protest on July 16th.