White Nationalists Drop 'Trash' In Seattle, Edmonds, Tacoma

SEATTLE, WA - A white nationalist groups scattered bags of what police are calling "trash" across Puget Sound over the weekend in Seattle, Edmonds, and Tacoma.

According to Seattle police, about 50 bags showed up in West Seattle filled with, "[a] Cold War-era slogan, rudimentary clip art and the URL for an incoherent white nationalist website, which reads like someone spilled a word-a-day calendar all over a copy of Mein Kampf."

The bags appeared near the Alaska Junction and in other West Seattle neighborhoods, according to SPD.

Similar bags were found over the weekend in the Maplewood neighborhood in Edmonds, according to My Edmonds News. In Tacoma, anti-fascist activists gathered the bags, shredded them, and dropped the trash at homes of known white nationalists.

Seattle police are actively investigating the incident. If you know anything, contact the bias crimes unit at (206) 684-5550.

The same group turned up in Bellevue and Gig Harbor in November 2017, putting up posters and banners in those cities. The group also put up fliers in Kirkland in October that said, "Keep America American," and calling immigrants "criminals."

The group that dropped the bags over the weekend, Patriot Front, has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group sprang up after the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va.

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