Christopher Hood was arraigned within the West Roxbury Municipal Court this morning, following a conflict between his white supremacist group and counter-protestors over the weekend throughout a drag queen ebook studying in Jamaica Plain.
Hood, who based the Massachusetts chapter of the Nationalist Social Club in 2019 — a white supremacist group in keeping with the Anti-Defamation League — arrived with a small group of members at a public drag queen story hour for kids and households on the Loring Greenough House noon Saturday.
The NSC-131 group members had been reportedly chanting “Pedo scum off our streets,” they usually drew a small crowd of counter-protestors. An altercation erupted, main Hood and two counter-protestors to be arrested, officers stated.
Because their lack of legal historical past, in keeping with the Suffolk District Attorney’s workplace, costs had been dropped towards each counter-protestors.
Hood, 23, of Pepperell, faces a cost of affray, which carries no jail time. He will return to court docket for a pre-trial listening to on Sept. 19.
During the arraignment, the prosecutor famous Hood has three prior arrests on his document and his conduct is “escalating” and “becoming increasingly violent.”
The choose Monday granted Hood conditional launch and denied the Commonwealth’s request to bar him from coming into Suffolk County. Hood was ordered to haven’t any contact with both of the opposite events concerned within the altercation.
Clashes between the neo-Nazi members and protestors continued Monday exterior the courthouse. A crowd of individuals protesting the NSC-131 group gathered forward of the morning’s arraignment, monitored by a heavy police presence.
WBZ video seems to point out a violent altercation as folks arriving with Hood within the morning kicked at one protestor after he fell to the bottom.
Protestors additionally chased Hood to his automotive as he left, yelling profanities and anti-Nazi sentiment. One younger man leaned up on Hood’s automobile and smiled extensively by the windshield as cops tried to clear the street, saying “See you September 19th.”
“Logistically, we know (white supremacist organizations) are recruiting,” stated Elizabeth Rucker of Showing Up for Racial Justice Boston, who attended the protest exterior the courthouse. “We need to equip our communities to respond. Not by saying, ‘Oh, if we ignore them they’ll go away.’ But directly confronting them wherever they show up and saying you’re not welcome here and being extremely loud about it.”
The costs towards Hood and the dropped costs towards the counter protestors Monday, Rucker stated, are a victory “of the community who showed up and made demands.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”