Vile Neo Nazis celebrate Capitol riots and tell mob to ‘throw a bomb’ in sick white supremacist Telegram group
VILE neo-Nazis celebrated the US Capitol riots and told the MAGA mob to “start shooting” and “throw a bomb” in sick online forums. Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday as bloody clashes erupted in Congress. Members of far-right groups, including the violent Proud Boys, joined the crowds in Washington DC, and members of […]
VILE neo-Nazis celebrated the US Capitol riots and told the MAGA mob to “start shooting” and “throw a bomb” in sick online forums.
Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday as bloody clashes erupted in Congress.
Members of far-right groups, including the violent Proud Boys, joined the crowds in Washington DC, and members of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups were also were spotted in the crowds.
At least four people died and several others were seriously injured during the violent siege.
As violence erupted between pro-Trump rioters and cops, online forums lit up with gleeful posts from neo-Nazis and white supremacists in response to the chaotic scenes.
The posts called for “more violence” and hailed the takeover of the Capitol, according to reports.
A group on encrypted messaging site Telegram called for the killing of police officers and burning down of the Capitol building, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute’s Domestic Terrorism Threat Monitor.
The non-profit organisation, which has been monitoring social media posts from US-based extremist groups, said neo-Nazis urged the Trump supporters inside the Capitol to “start shooting” and to “throw a bomb”.
In a post on social media site Gab, a neo-Nazi called for “more violence”.
“Escalations are a good thing. More violence is a good thing. The peaceful process has failed,” the post said.
“The existing order is evil, so anything that destabilizes it is good. Stability is working against us. Solve your problems with vigilante groups.”
Thousands of messages on Parler, a right-wing alternative to Twitter, included the hashtag #civilwar or other variations of the term.
A message on a Telegram channel said: “January 6th will be remembered as the day the white revolution began.”
On Twitter, a white supremacist urged people to “join the blood of the patriot and the tyrant alike”.
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The crowd of Trump supporters at the Capitol also included supporters of the Groyper Army, a loose network of white supremacists which includes America First podcaster Nick Fuentes, Associated Press reports.
Pictures on social media on Wednesday showed a neo-Nazi inside the Capitol building wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” t-shirt, while another showed a man stood outside wearing a top saying “6MWE”.
The initials are known to stand for “6 million weren’t enough” – a reference to the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
Representatives of Facebook and Twitter said they were working to remove threats and calls for violence from the social media platforms.
But across both platforms, Trump supporters used the hashtag #StormTheCapitol to document the violence with photos, videos and praise for the mob.
According to an analysis by media intelligence firm Zignal Labs, more than 1 million mentions of “civil war” and “storm the Capitol” had appeared in Twitter posts by Wednesday night.
Trump had earlier appeared to encourage his supporters, even as bloody clashes erupted in the Capitol building.
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In a tweet that has since been removed by Twitter, Trump told the rioters they were justified in their actions.
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long,” Trump tweeted.
“Go home with love and in peace. Remember this day forever!”