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  • 2017-08-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Did 'Antifa' Stab a Vermont Man for Not Condemning a Nazi? (en)
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  • On 16 August 2017, the right-wing web site BigLeaguePolitics.com reported that a Vermont man was attacked by an antifa mob — a description the alleged victim said did not come from him. Sam Wormer, the subject of the story, told us that he was met by five men outside his home a night earlier. Two of the five men, he said, attacked him directly while the other three just kinda hung back, but he disputed the story's premise blaming anti-fascist groups: Big League Politics interviewed Wormer after he posted a picture of himself on his Facebook page with a visible cut to his stomach, which he told us came from a box cutter blade. The caption read: Wormer's attackers have not been identified. He said that even though he was called a Nazi and a fascist, he did not describe them as being anti-fascists, either. He said there is a loosely organized antifa group in the area, which contacted him after the incident trying to figure out what happened [and] who's responsible, and have been very very supportive. Wormer, who has not sought medical attention but filed a police report after the attack, first attracted media attention when he was interviewed in a Burlington Free Press story about Ryan Roy, a local man who was fired from his job after being identified as one of the participants in a white supremacist march held in Charlottesville, Virginia on 11 August 2017. Roy described himself as a white nationalist and supporter of President Donald Trump to the Free Press. He also said: That legislation, which was signed into law by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson on 3 October 1965 and went into effect in June 1968, did away with quotas for immigrants to the U.S. based on their country of origin and instead gave priority to immigrants whose relatives already lived in the country, as well as those with specialized skills.. According to Wormer, he was completely shocked to see Roy in a Vice News report about the rally and did not agree with his beliefs, but still opposed subsequent demands online for him to be fired or lose custody of his child. He said that he was attacked shortly after he made a separate comment about Roy on Facebook, which read: Wormer said besides the attack on him, his roommate and his roommate's mother also received death threats, including a threatening call. Wormer also told us that Roy contacted him after the attack: Police in Essex Junction, where Wormer lives, told us they have nothing currently to report on the matter. But Wormer said he would press charges if the people responsible were caught. I don't want anyone else to get hurt, he said. (en)
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