Police: Whites, some in skinhead gear, beat black man
Source: Associated Press
Updated 12:34 pm CDT, Thursday, July 19, 2018
AVALON, Pa. (AP) — Police say a group of six white men and women — some in skinhead gear — assaulted a black man at a bar near Pittsburgh.
Police in Avalon say the man was violently attacked at the Jackman Inn on July 7.
Two women and four men face charges of ethnic intimidation and assault.
Police wrote in a complaint filed Wednesday that several attackers were wearing shirts with the Keystone State Skinheads logo, and others had tattoos with skinhead symbols.
The man had come to the bar to drop off a thank-you note to a friend who works there.
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Trump-Loving Skinheads Face Charges for Beating Black Man
Members of Pennsylvania's violent Keystone United gang—whose co-founder is a local GOP official—face charges for attacking a black man at a bar.
KELLY WEILL
07.18.18 1:58 PM ET
Members of a Pennsylvania white supremacist group are facing charges for allegedly beating a black man in a bar. The group’s co-founder, who previously pleaded guilty to terrorist threats and ethnic intimidation in the 2003 beating of another black man, is a local elected official.
Police are preparing charges against six or seven people who allegedly attacked Paul Morris, an African-American man, in a bar outside Pittsburgh earlier this month, KDKA reported. Witnesses said the alleged attackers wore clothing marking them as members of Keystone United, a violent white supremacist group. The group, which has shown up in force at Donald Trump’s rallies, was co-founded by Steve Smith, a current elected official in his county’s Republican Party. Smith, who lives outside the area and was not placed at the scene of the attack, and other Keystone members have previously been convicted in beatdowns on black men.
As of June, Keystone United’s website described Smith as the group’s spokesman, although he did not return The Daily Beast’s request for comment on the attack on Morris.
The Jackman Inn, an Avalon, Pennsylvania bar, has a ban against people wearing gang patches or hate-group symbols, the Pittsburgh-area newspaper The Citizen reported. But a new bartender working that night didn’t notice when a group of men and women wearing Keystone United clothing entered the bar on July 7.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-loving-skinheads-face-charges-for-beating-black-man
Steven Smith
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