Pittsburgh Police Shooting Suspect Member of StormFront White Supremacist Neo-Nazi Web Site
Suspect in officers’ shooting was into conspiracy theories
Pittsburgh police shooting suspect was member of StormFront White Supremacist Neo-Nazi Web Site
– Richard Andrew Poplawski “joined Florida-based Stormfront”…. and sought to get tattoos of “life runes”
– “Life runes are a common symbol among white supremacists, notably followers of The National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group linked to an array of violent organizations”
April 7, 2009 : Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Poplawski’s web postings warned of ‘enemies’
– “Richard Poplawski posted dozens of racist and anti-Semitic messages on a far-right Web site over a span of 15 months, decrying race-mixing, sharing his thoughts on the best weapons and predicting chaos as the economy collapsed at the hands of ‘Zionist occupation,’ investigators said”
– Report of November 28, 2008 Poplawki post on StormFront reads: “I’ve been a longtime lurker on Stormfront, and I see myself probably ramping up the activism in the near future”
– “Stormfront, a white supremacist Web site run by a former Ku Klux Klan leader in Florida”
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