3/ In fact, in clips from that march, we see Antoine attending as a member of the neo-Nazi group Vanguard America. In this clip, another Vanguard America member calls "Antoine!" and Antoine crosses the street to join him.pic.twitter.com/ooBL1uXAej
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4/ Vanguard America is a white supremacist, neo-Nazi organization founded in 2015. In August of 2017, James Alex Fields marched with them at the first Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA, before slamming his car into a crowd of protesters, killing Heather Heyer.pic.twitter.com/prOvthgq20
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5/ In November 2017, Antoine defected from Vanguard America to join Patriot Front, following the split between the orgs. As a new member of Patriot Front, he posted pictures of him flyering the Montgomery County Republican Party, at 15833 Crabbs Branch Way Rockville, Maryland.pic.twitter.com/eoQ7wWxWyf
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6/ And if you're interested, you can see all of Antoine's messages via this link from
@UR_Ninja.https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/user/531 reply 6 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
7/ In the chats, he used to go by "Antoine" but notes that he switched to "Charlemagne - MD" for "OPSEC reasons" when he joined Patriot Front in the fall of 2017.pic.twitter.com/g2wp7y9sFv
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8/ He also notes that he's a hockey player.pic.twitter.com/mDXoN5MB6i
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9/ And that he's in Rockville, Maryland.pic.twitter.com/x1VLjtIWDT
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10/ And that in the summer of 2017, he was 16 years old.pic.twitter.com/zhRPB6GNUw
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11/ And he posted a picture of himself wearing these sunglasses in the Patriot Front chats.pic.twitter.com/8dvmxVMJOa
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12/ So how many high school hockey players named Antoine with those sunglasses are there in Rockville, Maryland? Just one, as it turns out-- Antoine Renard, at Richard Montgomery High School.pic.twitter.com/VkQ8Lm7p9z
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13/ Patriot Front is an antisemitic, openly neo-Nazi organization whose members discuss using "ethnostate rape gangs" to police the behavior of white women who don't conform to their misogynistic notions of how women should act.https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/americans-fascists-inside-patriot-front/ …
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14/ The
@splcenter has designated them as a hate group, calling them "staunchly white nationalist."https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/patriot-front …1 reply 9 retweets 38 likesShow this thread -
15/ To the educators at
@RMHS_MainOffice--@RMHS_Principal,@AngelicaLSmith,@MsWheeler_RMHS,@RMHSCounseling-- please reach out to counterextremism groups like@hopenothate or@Parallel_Net.3 replies 16 retweets 74 likesShow this thread
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