Nazis protest at Healey’s home
Neo-nazis are not welcome in Massachusetts, the governor said after a group of them gathered in protest outside of her private residence.
About a dozen masked members of the group NSC131 stood across the street from the governor’s Arlington home on Saturday night, holding a protest that resulted in no arrests and no physical violence, but spreading a message of hate that Gov. Maura Healey said does not fly in the Bay State.
“These Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are trying to scare people from exercising their rights and standing up to their hate. We won’t tolerate it in Massachusetts,” she said in a written statement. The governor did not mention the protest during yesterday’s press availability.
Local CBS affiliate WBZ was the first to notice the gathering outside the governor’s home over the weekend, reporting a gathering of men chanting anti-immigrant slogans and holding a sign that read “New England is ours, the rest must go.”
Healey’s staff confirmed the protestors were members of the group National Socialist Club-131.
The Anti-Defamation League describes the organization as “a neo-Nazi group based in the New England region.”