D.C. Nazi who attended Charlottesville rally plotted shooting, had contact with Pittsburgh killer
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The United States has a clear and present danger facing us: white supremacists are on the attack and they are on a murderous rampage that must be stopped. A plot by two D.C.-area brothers to commit mass murder unraveled when 23-year-old Edward William ClarkD.C. Nazi who attended Charlottesville rally plotted shooting, had contact with Pittsburgh killer
The United States has a clear and present danger facing us: white supremacists are on the attack and they are on a murderous rampage that must be stopped. A plot by two D.C.-area brothers to commit mass murder unraveled when 23-year-old Edward William Clark committed suicide on the day of the Pittsburgh shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue. James Clark, Edward’s brother, had been in contact with Pittsburgh shooter Robert Bowers on the website Gab, a haven for white supremacists after other hate sites have been shut down. Both men were active on the site and James Clark had been in contact not only with Robert Bowers, but with James Fields, the man who drove his vehicle into a crowd, killing Heather Heyer. From The Daily Beast: Clark, a member of white supremacist circles who was photographed with alleged Charlottesville “Unite the Right” murder suspect James Alex Fields in 2017 and posted on alt-right social network Gab, shot himself with a pistol shortly after the attack. Edward Clark may have committed suicide rather than carry out a planned attack. But Clark had much more ammunition on him than was necessary, leading Clark’s relatives to believe he had originally intended to commit violence that same day against other people. In fact, both Clark brothers attended the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville and were reportedly planning a large-scale attack in the hopes of starting a race war. The Clark brothers were increasingly visible at alt-right white supremacist events. YouTube user OnePeoplesProjecttv (h/t Huffington Post) interviewed both Clark brothers at an event outside the White House in 2017. The event was organized by White Supremacist Richard Spencer, who had been famously punched in the face at a similar event only a few months prior. Jeffrey Clark identified himself as a Nazi and argued with the cameraman. Read more