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Three men charged after protesters shot at following Richard
Spencer speech.


Tyler Tenbrink and brothers William and Colton
Fears charged in Florida All three white nationalists were
also present at Charlottesville rally

After an incident that occurred less than two hours after the
white nationalist Richard Spencer finished speaking at the
University of Florida on Thursday, three white men were
arrested and charged with attempted homicide.


White supremacist Richard Spencer faces barrage of protest at
Florida speech


According to the Gainesville police, the men chanted “Hail
Hitler!”, gave Nazi salutes and fired a gun at a group of
protesters about a mile south of Spencer’s venue.

The three men were photographed and seen in media interviews
outside the venue, police spokesman Ben Tobias said, and at
least two were known to have links to extremist groups.

Tyler Tenbrink, 28, of Richmond, Texas, fired the gun,
according to the police. The Gainesville Sun reported that
Tenbrink was interviewed by one of its reporters hours
earlier, and said he had driven from Houston to see Spencer
speak.

“This is a mess,” Tenbrink reportedly told the Sun about the
protests. “I’m disappointed in the course of things. It
appears that the only answer left is violence, and nobody
wants that.”

According to a researcher at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL),
Tenbrink has attended at least seven white supremacist events.
He is also a convicted felon, according to the police.

Texas, “encouraged [Tenbrink] to shoot at the victims”,
police said. William Fears has been affiliated with Vanguard
America and the Patriot Movement, according to Carla Hill, a
researcher with the ADL Center for Extremism. He was seen
jabbing a flag at counterprotesters in Charlottesville,
Virginia, in August, she said, “and screaming the whole
time”.

All three men were present at the Charlottesville Unite the
Right rally, Hill said. That weekend, a car attack after
clashes in the streets left at least 19 counterprotesters
injured and killed a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer. James
Alex Fields, 20, who was photographed with Vanguard America at
the rally, was charged with second-degree murder.

Spencer has repeatedly said that he and his supporters are not
violent and those who protest against him are the real threat.
At his speech to hundreds of people at the University of
Florida’s Phillips Center on Thursday afternoon, he rejected
accusations from the audience that he was responsible for
violence carried out by followers of the “alt-right” movement.

The majority of the audience stood, chanted, booed and raised
their fists throughout his hour-long speech. When he mentioned
Heyer, the crowd chanted: “It’s your fault! It’s your fault!”

Asked how it felt to have a roomful of people accusing him of
being responsible for a young woman’s death, Spencer said: “I
just don’t take those people seriously. It’s a joke to say
something like that, so it doesn’t touch me.” He did not
respond to a request for comment on the charges following his
Gainesville event.

The Florida incident could have broad repercussions for
Spencer’s campaign to use public universities across the
country as a venue for his white nationalist ideas and as a
recruiting platform.

Ohio State University announced on Friday night that, despite
the threat of a lawsuit from Spencer’s supporters, the school
was denying a request to have him speak on campus. In a
statement, the university said it was issuing the denial “due
to substantial risk to public safety, as well as material and
substantial disruption to the work and discipline of the
university”.

Michael Carpenter, a lawyer representing Ohio State, wrote
Friday that “the university values freedom of speech” but that
it had denied the request to have Spencer speak after
reviewing “the information currently available” including
“yesterday’s events at the University of Florida”.

At 5.30pm on Thursday, about an hour and a half after Spencer
left the stage, three men in a silver Jeep pulled up to a bus
stop and yelled “Hail Hitler” and other chants at protesters,
according to the police report.

An argument ensued and a protester used a baton to hit the
rear window of the vehicle. The car pulled forward, then
stopped. Tenbrink emerged and pulled out a handgun. According
to the report, the Fears brothers were yelling “Kill them!”
and “Shoot them!” Tenbrink fired a single shot, which hit a
building. Then the men drove away.

They were stopped and arrested about 20 miles north of
Gainesville. Tenbrink admitted to being the shooter, according
to the police report. All three men are being held in the
Alachua County jail.

Gainesville police recovered a gun in the vehicle. Tobias, the
police spokesman, said the victims were in their early to
mid-20s and were carrying signs. Following department policy,
he said, the victims were not identified to protect their
safety.

“I am amazed that immediately after being shot at, a victim
had the forethought to get the vehicle’s license number,”
Tobias said. “That key piece of information allowed officials
from every level of multiple agencies to quickly identify and
arrest these persons.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/20/gainesville-sho oting-three-men-charged-florida-richard-spencer

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