African-American man becomes president of neo-Nazi group in Detroit

An African-American civil rights advocate is now the president of the National Socialist Movement, un grupo neonazi con sede en Detroit, and he says he wants to effectively dismantle the organization. James Stern, 54, of California filed incorporation records in January with the State of Michigan that show he is now the white supremacist group’s leader after the previous leader, Jeff Schoep, handed over the group to him amid concerns over a lawsuit filed against the group tied to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, en agosto 2017.

Stern told the Free Press on Monday that he took over legal ownership of the group “for the purposes of obliterating it, getting rid of it. … They are going to be destroyed.” This is the second time that Stern has assumed leadership of a white supremacist group to dismantle it, said the Southern Poverty Law Center.

LEER MÁS: FREEP.com