(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Police in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, faced a wave of backlash following the arrest of 31 alleged white nationalists who they said planned to incite a riot at a “Pride” event cosponsored by local transgender activists and Satanists.
BREAKING: Authorities have stopped this Uhaul and detained approximately 20 people. They all have the same type of clothing on. Truck was stopped about 1/8th mile from the pride event. We’re working to get more info from police. @KREM2 pic.twitter.com/bez1msBz45
— Kyle Simchuk (@KyleSimchuk) June 11, 2022
Members of the supposed right-wing group Patriot Front were intercepted before arriving at the event after an informant reportedly saw them loading up into a U-Haul van.
“It appears they did not come here to engage in peaceful events,” Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris reportedly said, according to BizPacReview.
In response to the pre-emptive arrests, local police said they had received angry calls and even death threats from citizens who denounced efforts to punish “thought crimes.”
Half the Patriot Front’s probably Feds anyway. But, yes, it’s a thought crime, ffs.
— Wartime Consigliere (@ExpatD1) June 12, 2022
But according to Alissa Azar, a woman who was present for the arrests last Saturday, police admitted that “they got arrested because of the feds in their group chats.”
and then there were none. i need to cool down then i’ll post some more footage. got images of almost all their faces.
cops said that they got arrested because of the feds in their group chats. all charged with conspiracy to riot. a helicopter followed before they got pulled over
— alissa azar (@AlissaAzar) June 11, 2022
The episode resurrected growing suspicions of the FBI’s conspiracy to infiltrate conservative groups and use plants to incite political violence in order to fuel false narratives about a domestic-terror threat from supporters of former President Donald Trump.
During one rally by Patriot Front in Washington, DC, last December, conservatives expressed widespread skepticism that the group contained anything but federal agents.
A self-proclaimed white supremacist group called “Patriot Front” staged a rally in Washington D.C. on Saturday in a bid to “reclaim America” — and was immediately called out as an FBI false flag.https://t.co/bK22LJerpA pic.twitter.com/N14bJiKNmq
— Jamie White (@WhiteIsTheFury) December 5, 2021
Leftist fumed over the rejection of the media narrative and immediately scrambled to “fact-check” it by insisting that the group was legitimate.
While conservatives “may not have been aware of Patriot Front’s existence before December 2021, it is indeed a real, earnestly-motivated white nationalist group with a real, readily verifiable history,” Snopes insisted.
But as BizPacReview pointed out, the group’s own manifesto makes no reference to race, undermining at least one significant component of that claim.
The arrests in Coeur d’Alene follow a series of other suspicious circumstances in which the FBI appeared to infiltrate and frame right-wingers.
Most notorious among these was the case involving the “Wolverine Warriors,” who had allegedly schemed to kidnap tyrannical Michigan’s far-left Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
All involved in the Whitmer instance were recently acquitted–a fact which the mainstream media largely ignored.
Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.
