Stickers from a white nationalist hate group were found on cars parked outside an outdoor market supporting Black and brown businesses during an event in the Boston area last weekend.'s death last year, said attendees saw three openly armed men placing stickers from the white supremacist group Patriot Front on cars at the Sunday event. The nonprofit alleges that the three men's actions were"intended to intimidate our vendors, attendees and volunteers.
Merrimack Valley Black and Brown Voices was founded to help provide"Black, Indigenous, and People of Color across the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts with a safe space to connect, share resources, and create systemic change to eliminate prejudice and discrimination in surrounding communities." A Patriot Front sticker found on the cars of attendees at a summer market supporting Black and brown businesses last weekend in Haverhill, Massachusetts.The nonprofit said that while it"will not be deterred or surrender to such intimidations," it would be postponing its second planned summer market, which was originally set for July 25, until"further precautions are taken."
The shooting in Winthrop is being investigated as a possible hate crime after the gunman, who killed two people last month, used"some troubling white supremacist rhetoric" that targeted Black and Jewish people, according to officials. Both victims were Black.
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