After an incident that occurred less than two hours after the white nationalist Richard Spencer finished speaking at the University of Florida on Thursday, three white men were arrested and charged with attempted homicide. The Gainesville Sun reported that Tenbrink was interviewed by one of its reporters hours earlier, and said he had driven from Houston to see Spencer speak. Photograph: APBrothers William Fears, 30 and Colton Fears, 28 of Pasadena, Texas, “encouraged [Tenbrink] to shoot at the victims”, police said. William Fears has been affiliated with Vanguard America and the Patriot Movement, according to Carla Hill, a researcher with the ADL Center for Extremism. The Gainesville Sun quoted William Fears on Thursday as saying: “We’re starting to push back, we’re starting to want to intimidate back.

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2017 22:45 UTC