Black Panthers Group Marches In VA Town, Responding To White Nationalist Demo: Report

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – Members of a group inspired by the Black Panthers marched through the Virginia Beach Oceanfront area on Saturday, a week after a group widely condemned as White nationalists did the same.

According to WAVY, a group of about a dozen members of the Original Black Panther Party, whose Virginia chapter was founded in 2018, demonstrated along 31st Street on Saturday. Their event was a response to the Memorial Day weekend march by the group Patriot Front, which carried flags associated with the Confederacy of the U.S. Civil War.

The OBPP usually operates in high-crime neighborhoods, a representative told WAVY, but wanted to publicly demonstrate near where Patriot Front had marched to show area residents that they don’t have to be intimidated by hate groups.

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