TINLEY PARK MELEE PUTS TWO ON THE WHITE POWER CHOPPING BLOCK: STEVEN SPEERS & FRANCIS GILROY

The folks at Stormfront have been doing their best to pick a fight with antifa and supporters since the blowup at a family restaurant in a suburb outside Chicago that sent a number of them to the hospital, and resulted in five people getting arrested. But they are not very good at that when they are dealing with those who want that fight. And now we have learned that two of theirs were arrested on child pornography (Speers, left) and weapons (Gilroy, right) charges. Its scary how easy it is to complicate things for boneheads, and if they want to dance, we will lead. 

One People’s Project

TINLEY PARK, IL – It has been learned that in addition to the five individuals that were arrested leaving a restaurant that was the scene of a brawl between antifa and neo-Nazis, two of the neo-Nazis were also arrested on charges not related to the incident, one of them being on a warrant for possession of child porn.

According to a Patch.com article, Francis John Gilroy Jr., 65, of West Palm Beach, Fla., who is known as “Copperhead” on the West Palm Beach-based neo-Nazi website Stormfront, was charged with unlawful possession of weapons by a felon, while Steven E. Speers, 33, of Grand Forks, N.D., known on Stormfront as “Steven the Viking” was wanted on an active warrant out of Dallas County, Texas, for possession of child pornography.

Speers is a convicted felon with a long criminal history who was released from a Florida prison in 2009 after serving two years for a felony battery conviction, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center blog Hatewatch. He also has had four arrests for battery from 2000 to 2005 and one conviction of marijuana possession. The blog also says he was asking for financial help on Stormfront in his child custody case where his child’s mother had a restraining order against him. He also defended a woman being attacked for posing nude in a magazine feature called “Hot Homies”.

Gilroy, who has also gone by the name ”Father Francis” on the radio show of Stormfront owner Don Black, was arrested in 1999 after failing to cooperate with police when they pulled him over. A search of his van turned up handguns, two assault rifles and 3000 rounds of ammunition in his van. Gilroy was arrested in the aftermath of last week’s scuffle when police found a pistol in his truck.

Gilroy has been believed to have ties to militia groups in the 1990s, and had been seen at anti-immigration events recently, most notably the anti-immigration rally in Harrisburg, PA on Sept. 1, 2007 where neo-Nazis made up the majority of those participating in the event. That was just after a July 2007 anti-immigration rally in Morristown, NJ where neo-Nazis also appeared en masse, and after one of them was involved in a physical altercation with antifa there, Gilroy complained about the tough gun laws in New Jersey making it hard for them to fight back, further writing, “(W)e must not let this go un answered the battle is already in the streets it is going to get worse (sic).”