A group of masked, anonymous demonstrators who waved Nazi flags at the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville on Saturday are apparently part of the same Blood Tribe neo-Nazi group as Kent “Boneface” McLellan, the American neo-Nazi who gained notoriety in 2023 after he claimed to fight alongside a Ukrainian military unit that regularly uses fascist imagery and is accused of harboring neo-Nazi views.
Media reports suggest the group of individuals who were holding Nazi flags in the viral video recorded by Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) on Saturday are affiliated with the Blood Tribe, which the Anti-Defamation League explains is a “growing neo-Nazi group” that purportedly has chapters in the United States and Canada.
Just left an event honoring a Black sorority and spoke of the need to unite against the rising tide of white supremacy, only to be confronted by Nazis marching through downtown Nashville.
This is exactly what my Republican colleagues hate speech is fostering and inviting. pic.twitter.com/ZaK5kUQDYP
— Rep. Justin Jones (@brotherjones_) February 17, 2024
The Blood Tribe last made headlines last September, when a selection of members that included McLellan protested outside Disney World, ostensibly in support of measures taken by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis against the woke corporation.
Shortly after appearance at the protest in Florida, it was revealed that McLellan, who has covered his entire face and upper body in racist and neo-Nazi tattoos, claimed to have volunteered to fight in Ukraine alongside the controversial Azov Battalion during its bloody defense of Mariupol in 2022.
McLellan’s record of foreign service remains unconfirmed, as Bellingcat later claimed to place him in Florida during the period he was purportedly fighting in Ukraine.
Members of the neo-Nazi group, including its founder Christopher Pohlhaus, confirmed the group’s affiliation with McLellan, but suggested he is no longer in “good standing” with the Blood Tribe.
While McLellan’s ties to Ukraine remain unconfirmed, Pohlhaus declared on camera last year, “I think Biden’s better than Trump ’cause he sends rockets to Ukraine” before adding, “Heil Ukraine!”
The news that McLellan was no longer in “good standing” with the Blood Tribe came after reporter and former U.S. House candidate Laura Loomer released police body camera video from a Escambria County, Florida deputy who detained McLellan.
In the recording, the deputy appears to confirm his name is listed in the police and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) databases as a “terrorist organization member” who is “armed, dangerous” and harbors “violent tendencies.”
Additionally, McLellan is observed telling the deputy he “just got back from Ukraine,” and the deputy later remarked, “I’ve never seen this before… They have Border Patrol’s number on this.”
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The link between the Blood Tribe and those in attendance at the Nashville neo-Nazi rally comes as a growing number of conservatives question the motives of the protesters.
“Gotta keep up the fear of domestic terrorism to justify hunting Republicans,” wrote cartoonist and author Scott Adams on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Gotta keep up the fear of domestic terrorism to justify hunting Republicans. https://t.co/KPyFxTrYCv
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 18, 2024
Chinese-American author Xi Van Fleet shared the sentiments in her own post, declaring the protesters “are hired actors safely hiding behind their masks” who went to Nashville “to convince people that white supremacy is rampant and MAGA is to blame.”
“Nazi (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) is a party of radical leftists, not much different from the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America),” Van Fleet added.
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These “nazis” are hired actors safely hiding behind their masks. They are here to do one job: to convince people that white supremacy is rampant and MAGA is to blame.Nazi (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) is a party of radical leftists, not much… https://t.co/eXbFAJojx4
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) February 18, 2024
The Tennessee Faith and Freedom Coalition pledged to stand in solidarity with Jewish Tennesseans.
“As we previously condemned antisemitism [and] the Nazis amongst Gabrielle Hanson supporters in Franklin as well as the Marxist Pro-Hamas crowd in the Democrat Party, we utterly condemn those Joe Biden supporters marching under Nazi flags downtown yesterday,” the conservative group posted to X.
The group added, “Antisemitism has no place in society. We continue to stand with our Jewish brothers [and] sisters against it.”
As we previously condemned antisemitism & the Nazis amongst Gabrielle Hanson supporters in Franklin as well as the Marxist Pro-Hamas crowd in the Democrat Party, we utterly condemn those Joe Biden supporters marching under the Nazi flags downtown yesterday.
Antisemitism has no…
— Tennessee Faith & Freedom Coalition (@TNFaithFreedom) February 18, 2024
Nashville radio host Matt Murphy noted on X the universal condemnation those harboring neo-Nazi views receive from members of the Tennessee Republican Party, calling Representative Justin Pearson (R-Memphis) to account for associating the display with Republicans.
“I know of no one in the TNGOP that has done anything other than condemn this gross, disrespectful, evil display,” wrote Murphy.
The SuperTalk 99.7 WTN host continued, “Pearson attempting to tie this to his colleagues and his claim that members of the House is not only disrespectful and shameful, it is also dangerous.”
I know of no one in the TNGOP that has done anything other than condemn this gross, disrespectful, evil display. Pearson attempting to tie this to his colleagues and his claim that members of the House share these views is not only disrespectful and shameful, it is also… https://t.co/YI31qrhx60
— Matt Murphy (@mattmurphyshow) February 18, 2024
In addition to its alleged links to Ukraine and overt affinity for the country, Blood Tribe founder Pohlhaus last summer boasted of his plans to travel to Ukraine and work as a “liaison” between neo-Nazis in the “anglosphere” and Ukraine.
“I will be going personally with a squad of mostly vets who have committed to the task,” reportedly claimed Pohlhaus, who himself is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, in a social media post. He later wrote, “We see the glorious opportunity in this conflict,” and elaborated, “Because the American military is staying out of it, we get the chance to participate [under] OUR banner.”
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Georgia Star News, The Virginia Star, and the Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Image “Masked Demonstrators” by JoshuaPHilll.
I can’t wait to see what kind of stunt Comrade Jones tries to pull at the next TN House Floor session. He’s going to try to milk this “event” for all the attention he can get.
Yeah DJ….they look a lot like Antifa with their masked faces and the Antifa logo colors.
52nd House District has a problem with people not voting. A lot just think primaries don’t have consequences. I tell my friends who have Gen Z children who don’t vote and themselves who don’t vote in primaries. That the state level is more important than the Presidential election.
So we wind up with this progressive A$$hole. He just wants his face out there. He should go back to California where he came from. And the Davidson County Republicans have to do better getting good conservatives to run for local offices. We need to turn Davidson County RED.
this is as phony as a football bat
Nazism is based on:
Socialism (it’s in their name)
Antisemitism
Using the judicial system to put political opponents in jail
Controlling the press
Which US political party are present has the most connections to these?
NAZI is the acronym for National Socialist Workers Party:
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions” —Adolph Hitler
And like their radical leftist political cousins now who support citizen disarmament:
“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA – ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.”–Heinrich Himmler, Head of NAZI Gestapo
Justin Jones couldn’t find any real stories on “white supremacy” so he made up his own. More out of work actors.
Just a little too scripted. Unlike AntiFa,Trump supporters don’t cover their faces. More paid actors sending up a “false flag” hoax.
Feds
So these Ukraine Neo-nazi’s just happen to show up right before Jill Biden comes to Nashville?
We need a Law to prevent people in protests or “marches” from covering their faces..if they want to do that, fine but you MUST be able to be identified if necessary.
That would go a long way toward unmasking/stopping these things
Conservatives don’t cover their faces at political events. Only leftists like Justina Jones do that. I’m sure he’s in close contact with these Nazis.
Right Jack, “this group is associated with him politically.”
And here is a short clip of the leader saying just that:
https://rumble.com/v4e5qy6-heres-the-leader-of-that-new-neo-nazi-group-explaining-his-preference-for-t.html
Justin Jones called my State Rep, Dr Sabi Kumar, “the brown face of white supremacy”. He was following and does follow the communist counsel of Saul Alinsky, “accuse others of what you do, while you’re doing it”.
Jones is both an attention ho and quite stupid. He likely failed to realize this group is associated with him politically, and even if he had the intellectual capacity to make the connection, he would have been unable to restrain himself. The 52nd House district can do better…I think.