The news of a Nazis rally in various parts of Central Florida over the Labor Day weekend prompted conflicting narratives from leftist and conservative voices in news and on social media. Additionally, a new video shared by conservative investigative journalist Laura Loomer offered a deeper and far-reaching connection involving the Nazis, federal law enforcement and intelligence, and the war in Ukraine.
Immediately after reports of the rally in Altamonte Springs (north of Orlando) on Saturday (September 2), left-aligned media claimed it as a rally of far-right white supremacists. The conservatives countered this narrative with a clip from the video showing Christopher Pohlhaus, one of the leading members of the group, express his support for Joe Biden as well as hailing Ukraine’s Azov battalion – a well-known group of Nazi fighters.
https://twitter.com/TheWakeninq/status/1698227639628996755
Newsweek took a somewhat balanced approach to reporting on the incident as they included the rally leader’s expression of support for Biden and retracting support for DeSantis:
Neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups have a history of trolling and paradoxically endorsing causes they do not agree with, including politics. Many neo-Nazis and white supremacists reject both the Democrats and Republicans over their support for Israel.
Many conservatives immediately expressed the suspicion that at least some members of the rally were feds – operatives working for federal agencies, particularly for the FBI. Comments on Twitter/X calling for seeing the unmasked faces of the rally members poured in on the videos of the event that used Nazi flags with Swastikas and chanted Nazi slogans. Prominent among them is Laura Loomer who had recorded part of the rally on the ground and was chased by the Nazis to her car as they harassed her.
Loomer immediately got to researching another unmasked rally participant seen in the video and shared a summary of his criminal record. She posted about him on Twitter/X on Sunday (September 3) to identify him as Kent R. “Boneface” McLellan of Deltona, who was arrested on May 23 this year for burglary with assault or battery but was released without any bail. Loomer also shared that McLellan was arrested by the FBI for domestic terrorism as far back as 2012 and questioned why he isn’t behind bars. She posted a screenshot of McLellan’s criminal record and wrote:
“The CIA and FBI are endangering people’s lives by working with this man as a confidential informant. He is a violent Nazi and shouldn’t be allowed out in the public.”
Kent R. “Boneface” McLellan, 33, of Deltona, was arrested May 20, 2023 and charged with burglary with assault or battery. Bail was not set.
He has a long criminal record for trafficking meth amphetamines and assault. He was also arrested by the FBI in 2012 for Domestic… https://t.co/wBSUyHps9z pic.twitter.com/exfDLdefJR
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 4, 2023
Loomer followed upon it with another tweet linkingan other Ukrainian Nazi operative, as Sergai Dybynyn, known to the FBI. Dybynyn was reportedly pictured on January 6 among the crowd that marched on the federal capitol in D.C. on January 6, 2021. She questioned why Dybynyn was never arrested by the FBI or investigated by the January 6 Committee.
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: 🚨🚨🚨
Now that I have exposed Ukrainian Nazis working with the CIA and FBI, let me show you how this isn’t a one time thing, and let me show you how our government is working with Ukrainian neo Nazis to instigate conflict in America and recruit for White… https://t.co/LcPsWQ3L8Y pic.twitter.com/k2uGPEoUwu
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 4, 2023
On September 4, Loomer posted an ‘exclusively obtained” video of an Escambia County police officer in Florida questioning Kent “BoneFace” McLellan during a police stop. When the officer saw McLellan’s ID he was heard saying, “It says to contact the FBI. I’ve never seen this before…. They have Border Patrol’s number on this.”
The police officer, who reportedly found “armed, dangerous, violent tendencies” on McLellan’s criminal record, asked McLellan whether he was Ukrainian. McLellan replied that he had just returned from Ukraine.
Loomer added:
“This is proof the CIA/FBI and Florida law enforcement are protecting NAZIS and Ukrainian war criminals, given the fact that McLellan was also recently given a Ukrainian passport.”
🚨🚨🚨MUST WATCH🚨🚨🚨🚨
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:
I have exclusively obtained Video evidence and police body camera footage of a police officer in Escambia County, FL by the name of Deputy K. Haley, badge number 614272 interacting with CIA/FBI Nazi Asset and Azov Battalion fighter… https://t.co/LcPsWQ3L8Y pic.twitter.com/6uwzK6JyPz
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 4, 2023
Following these revelations, Laura Loomer went on Steve Bannon’s show on Tuesday (September 5) and described the whole story from the Nazi rally to the details of links between FBI/CIA and McLellan.
Laura Loomer’s tweets have gathered millions of views and thousands of comments on each tweet in her series of investigation into the Nazi presence in Florida.