Each man has been charged with conspiracy to riot, a misdemeanor.Ī parade marshal starts the Seattle Pride Parade in 2019. 'They came to riot downtown,' said the city's police chief, Lee White, at a Saturday press conference. Most had traveled to Idaho from other states, authorities said, and the group was outfitted with riot shields, shin guards and at least one smoke grenade. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, police detained 31 men near a Pride in the Park event on Saturday, all of them members of a white nationalist group called Patriot Front.
'Our community needs to be on the hypervigilant side of safety.' 'I think it should be a stark reminder this is probably not the last time we are going to see something like this,' said Katie Carter, the CEO of Pride Foundation, an LGBTQ philanthropic organization that focuses on the northwestern U.S. Law enforcement said members of a far-right group were arrested for planning to riot near the march.Īfter disruptions to two LGBTQ pride events over the weekend - the arrest of a group of extremists who allegedly planned to riot near a Pride event in Idaho and the interruption of a 'Drag Queen Story Hour' in the Bay Area - organizers of similar events this June say they are on edge as Pride Month continues. Members and supporters of the LGBTQ community march during the Pride in the Park event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Saturday.
