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Neo-Nazi leader filmed repeatedly punching security guard at Channel Nine building
The assault happened hours before A Current Affair broadcast a segment on an Australian far-right group
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Tom Sewell, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network, has been filmed assaulting a security guard at the Nine Network’s Melbourne offices. Photograph: Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

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The leader of an Australian neo-Nazi group has been filmed assaulting a Channel Nine security guard just hours before the network’s A Current Affair broadcast a segment about the organisation.
Thomas Sewell, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network, was filmed assaulting the guard on Monday afternoon after he and another man came to the network’s offices in Melbourne before its tabloid current affairs program aired a segment about the group.

Footage of the assault, posted online and seen by Guardian Australia, shows the security guard ushering Sewell and the other man, who is holding a camera, out of the building.
The second man uses a racial slur against the security guard, who is black. He appears to put his hand over the camera. The video then shows Sewell strike the guard a number of times as the guard falls to the ground.
Victoria police confirmed officers had been called to an address at Docklands in Melbourne “following reports a man was assaulted”.
“It’s believed the victim was approached and assaulted by an unknown man at a Bourke Street business about 5pm,” a spokesperson for Victoria police said on Monday night.
“The offender, along with another man, both fled the scene and remain outstanding.
“The victim was transported to hospital with injuries. Police are investigating the incident and ask anyone who witnessed it to come forward.”
In a statement, a spokesman for Channel Nine said the company had handed CCTV footage of the incident to police and will cooperate with authorities in “seeking justice”.
“Thomas Sewell, who was featured in our A Current Affair report tonight on Neo Nazis, arrived at Nine Melbourne with a fellow member of his group late his afternoon,” the spokesman said.

“The pair demanded to see A Current Affair staff but were asked to leave. While they were being escorted from the building, a security guard was attacked and punched multiple times by Sewell.

“The pair then ran from the station. Victoria Police have been handed CCTV vision of the attack and the building’s security guard was taken to hospital by ambulance.
“Victoria Police will have Nine’s full cooperation in seeking justice. We are providing support to the security guard who was attacked. Nine is committed to providing a safe working environment.”
On Tuesday, the former Labor leader Bill Shorten was among those to condemn the assault. On Nine’s Today Show he called Sewell a “cowardly scumbag”.
“You know, our grandparent’s generation … would be shocked to realise we’re still arguing about Nazis,” he said.
Sewell is a self-avowed neo-Nazi who has long been linked to the far right in Australia.



 

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The Officers Danced at a Black Lives Matter Rally. Then They Stormed the Capitol.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/...k-lives-matter.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes


ROCKY MOUNT, Va. — One sunny day last spring, Bridgette Craighead was dancing the Electric Slide with three police officers in the grass next to the farmers’ market. It was the first Black Lives Matter protest this rural Virginia county had ever had, and Ms. Craighead, a 29-year-old hairdresser, had organized it.
She had not known what to expect. But when the officers arrived, they were friendly. They held her signs high, and stood next to her, smiling. Later an officer brought pizzas and McDonald’s Happy Meals. They even politely ignored her cousin’s expired license plate.
This, she thought, was the best of America. Police officers and Black Lives Matter activists laughing and dancing together. They were proving that, in some small way, their Southern county with its painful past was changing. They had gotten beyond the racist ways of older people. This made her feel proud. In a photograph from that day, Sgt. Thomas Robertson is smiling, and Ms. Craighead is standing behind him, her face tilted toward the sun and her fist held high.
She did not see the officers around Rocky Mount much after that. But in early January, someone sent her a photograph. It showed Officer Jacob Fracker and Sergeant Robertson posing inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the day the building was stormed by Donald J. Trump’s most fervent supporters.
At first, she did not believe it. Not her officers. But there they were, Officer Fracker giving the camera his middle finger. She confronted them on Facebook and they did not deny it. On the contrary, they were proud.

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Officer Fracker, left, and Sergeant Robertson inside the Capitol on Jan. 6. Ms. Craighead confronted them on Facebook afterward.Credit...U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia
What came next happened fast. The officers were arrested, their homes searched and their guns confiscated. Residents yelled at one another outside the municipal building while the Town Council was inside debating the officers’ jobs. Ms. Craighead and her hair salon received threatening emails and Facebook messages. The officers did too. Everybody, it seemed, was angry.
From the best of America to the worst of America. That was Franklin County over the past year. But what happens now? Mr. Fracker, 29, and Mr. Robertson, 48, both veterans, one who served in Afghanistan, the other in Iraq, say they did not participate in any of the violence that happened at the Capitol that day, when scores of people were hurt and five lost their lives. The charges they face — disorderly conduct and disrupting the proceedings of Congress — are nonviolent, and less serious than those facing people accused of assaulting police officers. They went to Washington to express their views, and they say they went to war so Ms. Craighead would be able to express hers too.
“I can protest for what I believe in and still support your protest for what you believe in,” Mr. Fracker wrote on Facebook after the riot, adding, “After all, I fought for your right to do it.”

The arrests of Mr. Fracker and Mr. Robertson, who both declined to speak for this article, have divided this county at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Their supporters say that the violence of the riot was wrong, but that the sentiment of the rally that day — protesting an election that many here believe, wrongly, was stolen — was honorable.
 

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Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch owners charged with abuse after women spoke out on TikTok
The Missouri AG said this was “one of the most widespread cases of sexual, physical and mental abuse patterns against young girls and women in Missouri history.”
Image: The Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch in Missouri. Videos by Amanda and other former residents describing abuse at the ranch amassed more than 33 million views, and prompted a sheriff's department investigation that remains ongoing.

The Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch in Missouri, where at least two dozen women alleged that they were abused. Courtesy of Amanda Householder




March 10, 2021, 11:57 AM EST / Updated March 10, 2021, 2:36 PM EST
By Tyler Kingkade and Liz Brown
The owners of a religious boarding school in southwestern Missouri have been arrested on dozens of abuse charges, following an investigation prompted by alumnae who spoke out on TikTok.
Boyd and Stephanie Householder, the owners and operators of Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch, were taken into custody Tuesday after the Missouri Attorney General’s office filed a litany of charges.

Court records show Boyd Householder, 71, faces 79 felony counts and one misdemeanor, including charges for child molestation, sodomy, sexual contact with a student and neglect of a child. Stephanie Householder, 55, faces 22 felony charges for abuse or neglect of a child, and endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged incidents occurred from 2017 to 2020.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt told reporters at a news conference Wednesday his office has identified 16 victims “so far,” and that he considers this to be “one of the most widespread cases of sexual, physical and mental abuse patterns against young girls and women in Missouri history.”
“There are no words I can say today to describe the mix of great sadness, horror, disgust and sympathy that I feel about these reports of cruel and almost unbelievable reports of abuse and neglect,” Schmitt said.

The Householders were being held in Vernon County Jail, Cedar County Sheriff James McCrary said. They were scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.
An attorney who has represented the Householders in civil lawsuits said he will not be representing them in the criminal cases. It was unclear Wednesday if the Householders had a defense lawyer. Stephanie Householder previously told NBC News that she and her husband deny all allegations against them.
Boyd Householder opened Circle of Hope in 2006 as a school that he claimed could reform rebellious teenage girls. Two dozen former residents previously told NBC News and “Dateline” that Boyd and Stephanie used cruel punishments against girls at the ranch, including withholding food, forcing them to perform manual labor and restraining girls face down for as long as an hour.

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Schmitt said witnesses told investigators that the Householders restrained girls with handcuffs and zipties, and stuffed dirty socks in their mouths. One girl said Boyd pushed her down the stairs, and another said he advised her on how to kill herself, according to Schmitt.
Charging documents allege that Boyd slammed two girls’ heads against a wall, kept another girl in a room with no light or sound for “an extended period of time on multiple occasions,” poured hot sauce into a girl’s mouth and used duct tape and socks to prevent a girl from using her hands for “several days.” Stephanie’s charges largely stem from allegations that she assisted Boyd in dangerous restraints and allowed him to continue to interact with the girls after assaulting them, according to charging documents.

Since the boarding school opened, concerned parents, staff members and others had reported Circle of Hope at least 19 times to three sheriff’s departments, state child welfare and education officials, the highway patrol, and the state attorney general’s office, according to interviews and records obtained by NBC News.
However, these complaints did not result in charges. An assistant U.S. attorney declined to prosecute in 2018, according to an email from a highway patrol officer who investigated Circle of Hope. And state child welfare and education officials had no authority to close the ranch, a loophole that a bipartisan bill pending in the Missouri Legislature aims to close.
Image: Amanda Householder in a family portrait with her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, who founded Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch in Missouri.

Amanda Householder in a family portrait with her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, who founded Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch in Missouri.Courtesy of Amanda Householder
The wave of state action began after the Householders’ daughter, Amanda, and women who attended Circle of Hope as teenagers started to post videos on TikTok last spring alleging abuse at the ranch. The videos prompted the Cedar County Sheriff’s Office to investigate, the office confirmed.
Last summer, about two dozen girls still enrolled in Circle of Hope were removed by state officials as more people came forward with abuse allegations. The Householders voluntarily closed Circle of Hope in August and put the property up for sale.
Schmitt’s office joined the investigation in November, after Cedar County prosecutor Ty Gaither requested assistance.
Amanda Householder said in a TikTok posted Wednesday morning she never thought her parents would be held accountable.
“This is a moment that does deserve to be celebrated,” she said, reacting to news of her parents’ arrests. “I am sad because they are my parents, but something my parents would always tell me is, ‘You made your bed, now you have to lie in it.’ Well, my parents made their bed and now they’re going to have to lie in it. As hard as that is for me, it’s about time.”
CORRECTION (March 10, 2021, 12:57 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated how many felony charges Boyd Householder faces. It is 79 (and one misdemeanor count), not 80.

 
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