Idaho police detained 31 individuals of a white supremacist group and indicted them with planning a riot at a queer pride event.

According to police, they were informed by a local citizen in the city of Coeur d’Alene, who saw the men wearing masks and shields getting into a truck.

The vehicle was quickly stopped, and the men – Patriot Front members – were apprehended.

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“They came to riot downtown,” according to Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White.

He also stated that riot gear and a smoke grenade were discovered in the lorry.

The lorry came to a halt near the North Idaho Pride Alliance’s Coeur d’Alene Pride in the Park event.

So yet, the arrested guys in the northwestern United States have made no public statements.

On social media, photos and videos have emerged of the suspects wearing masks kneeling on the lawn with their hands forced behind their backs.

The police said that they were phoned by a local homeowner who said it “looked like a little army” was piling into the truck.

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According to police, the arrested Patriot Front members are from 11 different states, with only one from Idaho.

After the fatal Unite the Right demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, the Patriot Front was created.

As per the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, the group’s manifesto calls for the establishment of a white ethnostate in the United States.

“Patriot Front focuses on theatrical rhetoric and activism that can be easily distributed as propaganda for its chapters across the country,” the SPLC remarked on the group.

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Patriot Front, according to the anti-racism organisation ADL, belongs to the alt-right branch of white supremacists but professes to be “patriotic.” It has called for “American Fascism,” which it describes as a “return to the traditions and virtues of our forefathers,” according to the ADL.

According to the ADL, the group’s ideology asserts that non-whites are not “Americans,” and its insignia include the fasces, a Roman bundle of sticks denoting authority that was adopted by Mussolini’s Italian Fascists last century.