2018: A Timeline of Fascist And Bigoted Extremist Violence

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In keeping with our 2017 list of violence committed by bigots and fascists, we thought it smart to continue this year.  The date of each incident noted below links to a news article documenting the attack.  We will be updating this on the regular, so check back once in a while.  Here’s hoping we have a much smaller and less-lethal list this year!

January 1, 2018: Charles William Davis II – a black army veteran and gay man – is waiting for a ride home with his friend when six men start in with homophobic slurs before escalating to a full-on six-on-two assault.  When Davis begins getting the upper hand, one of the men pulls a gun before a passerby scares them off.  Davis suffers a broken nose and several lacerations; his friend spends the first few days of 2018 in an ICU.  

January 1, 2018: A shelter for unaccompanied refugee children in Spinetoli, Italy is destroyed by arsonists.

January 2, 2018: 19-year-old student Blaze Bernstein is stabbed nearly two dozen times and then buried in a shallow grave in a park outside of Los Angeles.  20-year-old Samuel Woodward, a former classmate, is charged with the murder and makes statements indicating that Bernstein was murdered because of his sexual orientation.  It’s later revealed that Woodward is a self-described “national socialist” and member of neo-nazi terrorist organization Atomwaffen Division.

January 6, 2018: A black farm worker driving his employer’s tractor in South Africa was shot dead by a security guard in an unprovoked shooting described by the province’s agriculture minister as a hate crime.

January 9, 2018: After being vandalized repeatedly with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti the week before, a grocery store near Paris is set on fire by arsonists, causing extensive damage.   

January 10, 2018: 

Viccky Guiterrez, an immigrant and transgender woman, is killed when her LA apartment mysteriously is engulfed in flames.  Her friends claim that the attack was hate-motivated. 

January 11, 2018: 31-year-old Aryan Nations gang member Ronnie Lucas Wilson is stopped for speeding in Knoxville, TN and opens fire on the police officer with a shotgun, seriously wounding him, before driving away.  Lucas remains at large until being apprehended two days later.

January 12, 2018: Over 30 armed Casa Pound fascists attack people putting up anti-racist posters in Genova, Italy, stabbing one of them twice in the back.  

January 14, 2018: 44-year-old Manuel Lewis runs up to a table outside of a Tucson’s Starbucks where seven Muslim women are sitting and drinking coffee.  Shouting Islamophobic slurs and curses at them, Lewis knocks two of the women down to the ground, flips their table end-over-over, and smashes one woman’s smartphone.  A bystander stops Lewis from getting away and when police arrive to arrest Lewis, they found that his is carrying multiple knives.  

January 19, 2018: 37-year-old neo-nazi Jacob Albert Laskey, who had previously served a prison sentence for throwing swastika-engraved rocks through the windows of a synagogue during services and conspiring to murder a witness, stabs a 41-year-old man in a Creswell trailer park.  

January 20, 2018: As he was leaving the home of his date, 26-year-old Dashawn Horne is hit in the back of the head twice with an aluminum baseball bat by  an 18-year-old assailant.  As he laid bleeding and unconscious on the ground, the assailant said “this is what happens when you bring black people around here,” then struck him several more times with the baseball bat, then recorded himself yelling “Nigger” at Horne.

January 21, 2018: Fascists in Thessaloniki, Greece set fire to a historic building occupied by leftists, gutting it. 

January 23, 2018: A 25-year-old man makes several attempts to run over an Arab man sweeping the sidewalk in Beitar Illit after speaking with him and discovering he was Arab.  The racist driver later confessed to several other attacks on Palestinians as well as vandalizing Palestinian-owned vehicles.

January 25, 2018: A car belonging to an Arab men is torched in Jerusalem, with “Death to the Arabs” and other racist graffiti spray-painted on the wall next to it.  

January 31, 2018: Two teenagers randomly ambush and assault an eight-year-old Jewish boy while he is walking to a tutoring class in a Paris suburb.