‘Kill them’: Three men charged in shooting after Richard Spencer speech

The following article by Susan Svrluga and Lori Rozsa was posted on the Washington Post website October 20, 2017:

Protesters surrounded and shouted at Tyler Eugene Tenbrink, who attended Richard Spencer’s speech, as he tried to leave the University of Florida on Thursday. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Three men were charged with attempted homicide after they argued with a group of people protesting a white nationalist’s speech and fired a shot at them, police said Friday.

About 90 minutes after Richard Spencer’s speech Thursday at the University of Florida — which generated so much controversy that the governor declared a state of emergency days before the event — a silver Jeep pulled up to six to eight protesters near a bus stop and confronted them, according to Gainesville Police Department spokesman Sgt. Ben Tobias.

The men, whom police identified as white nationalists, threatened the group, making Nazi salutes and shouting chants about Hitler, police said. Continue reading “‘Kill them’: Three men charged in shooting after Richard Spencer speech”