L.A. Hate Groups: Map Shows Active Racist Groups Near Agoura Hills

AGOURA HILLS, CA – After a white nationalist gathering resulted in violence, and the death of an anti-racism protester, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reminds Americans that organized hate still happens today, with nearly 1,000 organizations currently active nationwide that meet its criteria for being designated a hate group.

In the Los Angeles Area, SPLC says 19 hate groups ranging from white supremacists to anti-LGBTQ, anti-Muslim and black separatist organizations are active. The SLPC website has an interactive map showing the location of hate groups state by state. The organization defines hate groups as those that "have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics."

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Here are the active hate groups in the Los Angeles area:

• White Nationalist/Neo-Nazi:
  • American Freedom Party, Los Angeles (White Nationalist)
  • The Daily Stormer, Santa Monica (Neo Nazi)
• General Hate:
  • Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, Santa Clarita
  • Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, Canyon Country
  • Jewish Defense League, Los Angeles
  • As-Sabiqun, Los Angeles
  • Official Street Preachers, Los Angeles
• Anti-Muslim:
  • Jihad Watch, Sherman Oaks
  • American Freedom Alliance, Los Angeles
  • David Horowitz Freedom Center, Los Angeles
  • ACT for America, Los Angeles
  • Bare Naked Islam, Marina del Rey
• Black Separatists:
  • New Black Panther Party, Los Angeles
  • Black Riders Liberation Party, Los Angeles
  • Nation of Islam, Los Angeles
  • Nation of Islam, Compton, Black Separatist
• Radical Traditional Catholicism:
  • Tradition in Action, Los Angeles
  • OMNI Christian Book Club, Palmdale
• Anti-LGBT:
  • Mass Resistance California, Torrance

Recently, a monument honoring Confederate soldiers was taken down from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery due to increasing backlash. The monument was sent into storage in order to be kept out of sight.

The owner of the monument, the Long Beach chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, initially said it would not remove it then reportedly had a change of heart later in the day. By 9 the following morning, the monument was gone, removed by a pickup truck and driven off while covered by a tarp.

The 6-foot monument was erected in 1925 and sits on a plot of land containing the graves of nearly 30 Confederate soldiers and their families who moved to Southern California after the war.

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The United Daughters of the Confederacy purchased the grave plots, placed the monument in the center and deeded the plots to individual veterans, Fox11 reported.

Tyler Cassity, the cemetery's president and co-owner, told the Los Angeles Times that someone vandalized the granite boulder monument Tuesday, using a black marker to write "No" across its bronze plaque, which bears the inscription: "In memory of the soldiers of the Confederate army who have died or may die on the Pacific Coast."

"I understood everyone's frustration, but I really felt like it wasn't our right to remove the monument. It's kind of against what we’re supposed to be doing there, preserving history," he told The Times. "I think they made a wise decision given how quickly it escalated and what's happening right now in the country."

More hate crime stories from Patch in the Los Angeles area:

• Hate Crimes Skyrocket in LA County
• City Targets White Supremacist Hangout In West San Fernando Valley
• Supreme Court Agrees with OC White Supremacist that He Should Die
• Tarzana Home Vandalized With Neo-Nazi Graffiti
• Long Beach Temple Painted with Swastikas, 'Nazi'
• [PHOTOS] White Supremacists March Against Illegal Immigration

Patch staffer Paige Austen contributed to this report/Main Image: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross and swastika burnings after a "white pride" rally in Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)