The co-owner of a South Jersey gym at the center of an ongoing controversyabout reopening used a megaphone labeled with a sticker from a noted white supremacist organization.
His lawyer, however, told NJ Advance Media that Atilils Gym owner Ian A. Smith was just handed the megaphone and that he has no association with the organization, the New Jersey European Heritage Association.
The rally in question took place on Monday, as hundreds of supporters gathered to cheer Smith’s reopening of the gym. Images identifying the sticker on the megaphone began circulating on social media on Wednesday.
On its website, the Anti-Defamation League identifies the New Jersey European Heritage Association as a “a small white supremacist group” created in 2018.