Police Chief Lee White attributed the abusive calls to hate groups from outside Coeur d Alene. The other half of the calls were supportive calls from the Coeur D Alene community.
Jared Michael Boyce, 27, was given an ultimatum by his mother, Karen Amsden after being arrested at an Idaho Pride event over the weekend, where 30 other Patriot Front members were also detained.
a u-haul full of dudes. reporter: a swarm of extremists who idaho police say came to riot. 31 suspected white nationalists zip tied and arrested, blocks from a pride festival. these people want violence for us. and we don t want violence for anybody there was at least one smoke grenade, multiple shields reporter: coeur d alene police saturday discovered the crowd crammed in a u-haul after a 911 caller described seeing a little army at a local hotel with slogans like reclaim america on their shirts police charging all 31 with conspiracy to riot, noting they planned to swarm several parts of coeur d alene and carried paperwork similar to an operations plan that a police or military group would put together they travelled in from states across the country, allegedly united by white nationalism. they appear to be affiliated with the group patriot front. who is patriot front? patriot front is a
After the arrest of more than two dozen members of a white supremacist group near a northern Idaho pride event, including one identified as its founder,
The arrests included a man one identified as the group s founder. They were arrested after a tipster described the group looking like a little army at a hotel parking lot in Idaho, police said.