A group of white supremacists who were seen marching through Little Rock, Arkansas, in front of a historic civil rights landmark, were only cited with traffic offenses, despite local leaders and community members branding them as a threat to public safety.
Police say that 22 individuals reportedly belonging to the Blood Tribe faction of neo-Nazis drove from out of state to Arkansas, where they marched in front of the state capitol and Little Rock Central High School, the first school in the city to integrate Black students in 1957 , three years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision ruling public school segregation unconstitutional.
Photos and videos were posted on social media showing dozens of masked individuals clothed in bright red shirts and black pants, carrying flags featuring swastikas and marching through the city on Dec. 6.
Local authorities say they “monitored” the group’s activities during their visit to Little Rock. They saw them piling into a large, box-style rental truck to drive to the site of their next demonstration…