They were all dressed alike and with riot gear .
Thirty-one people belonging to the extremist Patriot Front group were arrested in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho near a Pride event while in a pickup truck.
According to the police, they came from different American states and had moved from city to city to wreak havoc at LGBTQ + events: "They had protections, shin guards, riot gear and at least one smoke bomb ."
Their presence was signaled by a "phone call from a concerned citizen who reported about 20 people in a U-Haul van with their faces covered and similar to a small army," police said.
The charge is of " conspiracy to revolt ".
The Patriot Front is a group of neo- Nazi supremacists who are part of the larger alt right movement . The group is led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau, the former number one of Vanguard America, another right-wing movement from which Patriot Front was born.
(Unioneonline / D)
