Police set record straight on white supremacist video

BOCA RATON – A white supremacist came to Boca Raton with an anti-Semitic poster, then stood on a busy street corner for all to see.

“JEWS RAPE KIDS” was on one side of the sign, “THE HOLOCAUST IS A LIE” on the other.

Now a video of a 22-year-old man arrested for ripping up the sign has gone viral, with more than 400,000 views as of Wednesday.

The video of the Aug. 13 incident also shows a Boca cop fist-bumping poster-maker Patrick Little, a California man who says he plans to run for president in 2020.

The video makes it seem as though the officer is endorsing Little’s message of hate, but it doesn’t tell the whole story.

The Boca Raton Police Department released a clip from the officer’s body camera on Wednesday to set the record straight.

When the officer said he wanted to take a photo of the poster, Little asked to shake his hand.

The officer declined, said he was sick and

offered a fist-bump instead.

Little’s two videographers captured the incident on their cell phones, a police report says, then posted it on social media.

“The video was taken out of context,” said Jessica Desir, a spokeswoman for the Boca Police. “That’s why we released the clip.”

Although the agency doesn’t agree with the man’s sign, he has the right to stand on a public street corner and display it, Desir said.

Desir declined to reveal the name of the officer, saying many people were still confused by the video.

“He doesn’t condone the message,” she said. “We believe the message on the sign was offensive.”

The agency also turned to Twitter.

“The @BocaPolice officer involved does not condone his message & was trying to get him to cooperate in the investigation,” Boca police tweeted.

Little, 34, is a former Senate candidate who was barred from a California GOP convention in May because of his anti-Semitic and white supremacist views, according to The Washington Post.

He declined to talk to a reporter for the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Wednesday, telling her she would first have to pay him $200 for an interview — and even more, $350, if she were Jewish.

Luis Carlos Reyes, the man who tore up Little’s poster, told police he stopped his car and confronted Little after spotting the sign while driving by the intersection of Dixie Highway and Palmetto Park Road.

The video shows him telling Little, “Get that s--out of here dude.”

Reyes was charged with simple battery and criminal mischief.

He was not taken to jail, but released with a notice to appear in court on Sept. 13.