'An intelligence failure of significant proportions' preceded white supremacists' march in Boston
Members of Boston’s City Council and some terrorism experts are declaring last weekend’s white nationalist march through Boston an “intelligence failure” because local leaders had no idea the hate group with a history of violence was coming to town.
Councilman Ricardo Arroyo has called for a public hearing questioning why the Boston Regional Intelligence Center seemed to have no knowledge of the cross-country organizing by the Patriot Front to assemble its members in Boston July 2. Patriot Front is a white supremacist group formed in the aftermath of the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, during which a supporter drove his car into a crowd of demonstrators, killing one person.
Arroyo, who is running for Suffolk County district attorney this year, said “white nationalist hate groups are domestic terrorists. And so when we are talking about a group like that coming to Boston with no alleged intelligence of their arrival — even though it required them traveling across state lines, even though it required them coordinating in a way that clearly involved communications and diligence — is striking to me.”
Acting DA Kevin Hayden, Arroyo’s opponent, in a statement said his office is working closely with the Boston Police Department’s Civil Rights Unit on the investigation of the white supremacist march.
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