op leaders in Boston have condemned the actions of about 100 members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front who marched the city streets on Saturday. Many in the group wore face coverings while carrying shields and toting various flags during the march.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu called the group’s action “cowardly” in a tweet Saturday evening.
“To the white supremacists who ran through downtown today: When we march, we don’t hide our faces. Your hate is as cowardly as it is disgusting, and it goes against all that Boston stands for.”
Boston City Council President Ed Flynn said he was “outraged and disgusted” at the protest.
“I’m outraged and disgusted at the white supremacist group protesting today in #Boston. It’s critical to call out hate and intimidation when we see it, educate children on horrors of the past & stand w/the Jewish community, our immigrant neighbors & communities of color,” Flynn wrote in a tweet.
Flynn continued his outrage in a two-page letter that recalls 31 Patriot Front members getting arrested for allegedly conspiring to riot at a Pride event last month in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The city council president also brought up past news of “hate and bigotry: at Charlottesville in 2017, the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, or at a neo-Nazi rally earlier this year in Orlando.”