Jascha Manny (pictured) has been known by the antifa local to the Pacific Northwest for sometime. Now we are all going to know him in the wake of the melee in Olympia, Washington.
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A neo-Nazi that was on Stormfront recruiting supporters to take on Black Lives Matter protesters in Olympia, culminating in a full-scale brawl Saturday that left several neo-Nazis bloodied and scurrying, was profiled on an antifa site a year and a half ago.
According to Rose City Antifa, Jascha Manny boasts that he is a member of the Washington State White Citizens Support group. He is also a supporter of the Seattle Free America Rally, an activist project of the American Freedom Party, participating in its event in Portland on Oct. 12, 2013.
Tensions have been heightened since the May 21 shooting of Bryson Tyler Chaplin, 21, and Andre Damon Thompson, 24, both of Olympia, by Police Officer Ryan Donald, after according to police, they allegedly tried to steal a case of beer from the Westside Safeway. The two Black men are currently hospitalized, Officer Donald is on administrative leave and protests have been mounting in the wake of the shooting. On May 27, Manny, under his screen name “1pariah”, posted a thread on the White supremacist website Stormfront in several places titled “PROTECT THE PNW (olympia) FROM LOOTERS”, referring to the Pacific North West. In it, he noted how they “rolled out some skins to go monitor the anti-police black supremacist protesters.” and that they would be out again on May 30 when antifa put out a call to oppose their efforts. “Stand and be counted and protect the northwest!” Manny wrote. “These are OUR states, OUR cities, WHITE cities, and we’re gonna keep them away!”
In response to someone answering his call-to-arms for May 30, Manny wrote, “You can come again on saturday or do your part and spread the word. We need reinforcements.”
There has been very little discussion about Olympia since May 30, after Manna did indeed amass a group of neo-Nazis who participated in a rally, several of them since identified by the website olydocuments, as well as supporters such as Joe Ty, the lead singer of the Black Top Demon, a band that has been actively supporting the police especially since the May 21st incident. Ty, a Facebook friend of Jascha Manny has been seen counterprotesting the Black Lives Matter demos in the past few days.
The band, who says their members are of mixed race, has issued a statement saying they are against racism and only support the Olympia police.”We have never supported the nazis . Period,” the statement read. “Protesters say what ever they can and spread lies to discredit us for supporting the Olympia police department.”
Earlier news reports said an annonymous caller to the website My Northwest said that the group Volksfront was responsible for the Nazis attending. The group however, which was based in Portland, Oregon, disbanded last year, and there is no evidence of them resurfacing.
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