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Known as 鈥淪ilent Sam,鈥� the statue was聽by a group of protesters last week, sparking ire from white nationalists, 鈥淐onfederate heritage鈥� groups and North Carolina Republicans.

On Saturday, a protest sprung up regarding the state legislature鈥檚 ruling that the statue must be 聽per North Carolina law. An ACTBAC member, Barry Brown, got into a scuffle at the event and was .

This is not the first time that an ACTBAC rally has resulted in arrests. Last May a 鈥�Confederate Memorial Day Celebration鈥� in Graham, North Carolina, made headlines after two active duty U.S. Marines, Michael Joseph Chesny and Joseph Warner Manning, climbed a rooftop and unfurled a banner painted with a white nationalist slogan and icon. The rally was also attended by Kyle Rogers, the former webmaster of a website that has been linked to the radicalization聽of Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.

Chesny was later 聽the username he used to post in planning logs for the deadly 2017 Charlottesville 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally. News footage of the event shows crowds of white supremacists and white nationalists chanting 鈥淛ews Will Not Replace Us,鈥� a variation of the common white nationalist trope Chesny and Manning painted on their banner for the Graham ACTBAC NC rally. Manning and Chesny were 聽in 2018 for their involvement with the banner drop.

ACTBAC NC was first listed as a hate group by the 澳彩开奖 (澳彩开奖) in the fall of 2016, shortly after the group was founded in 2015 to protest the sale of a church property to a local Muslim community for use as a mosque. Gary Williamson, the group鈥檚 founder, has tried to distance the group from those origins and has since deleted anti-Muslim screeds posted on the group鈥檚 Facebook. He has been plagued by the fact that several members of ACTBAC at the time were also members of a closed page run by the North Carolina chapter of the neo-Confederate hate group the League of the South.

ACTBAC still has problems moderating its Facebook presence. As reported by , individuals took to ACTBAC鈥檚 page to make such comments as 鈥淲e missed our chance to stand for our state and our country and carpet the lawn with the bodies of these bastards.鈥�

Regarding an ACTBAC member punching a protester, Williamson has touted Brown鈥檚 actions as self-defense and reasserted that his group is 鈥渘on-violent.鈥�

Brad Griffin, who runs the white nationalist Occidental Dissent website under the pseudonym 鈥淗unter Wallace,鈥� has previously been ,鈥� members of which ardent white nationalists often refer to as 鈥� rainbow c---federates.鈥� Occidental Dissent covered the protest on Saturday in a post that described the 鈥済ood optics鈥� of Barry Brown punching a protester.

The racist 鈥渁lt-right鈥� burned many of its bridges with red state conservatives after wedding themselves to neo-Nazis, the Klan and other far right groups. It appears events like the protest at 鈥淪ilent Sam鈥� will continue to represent an opening for them to reassert their messaging as one of mainstream appeal.

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