Neo-Nazi hate group faces federal lawsuit over efforts to intimidate Nashville communities
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A neo-Nazi group that targeted Nashville communities during summer of 2024 faces a new lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The federal lawsuit, using an 1871 law created to target the Ku Klux Klan, was filed against the Goyim Defense League (GDL) and several GDL members on behalf of Deago Buck, a bartender involved in a skirmish with the group last July.
Their mission, the lawsuit claims, was “to intimidate and terrorize Jewish people and people of color for the purpose of depriving them of equal protection and other rights that they are guaranteed under state and federal law.”
“GDL and more than a dozen of its members targeted the Black and Jewish communities in Nashville during the first phase of their campaign. For ten days in July, they carried through on their plans of violence and intimidation, including marauding through town waving swastika flags, threatening people, screaming racist and antisemitic slurs, and obscenities in people’s faces, harassing a group of Black children, littering lawns with antisemitic propaganda, disrupting a public city council meeting, and viciously assaulting two young men because of their perceived race and/or Jewish ancestry,” the complaint states.
“This lawsuit seeks to hold GDL and certain GDL members accountable for the racially motivated harassment, threats, intimidation, and violence in which they engaged in furtherance of their conspiracy to target people based on skin color, race, and/or religion, for the purpose of depriving them of their rights to equal enjoyment of the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States guaranteed by the Constitution and laws, including the right to be free from racial violence and the right to access places of public accommodation, because of their race or religion.”
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