Florida White Supremacist Group Admits Ties to Alleged Parkland School Shooter Nikolas Cruz

[demmiblue]

Source: ADL

A spokesperson for the white supremacist group Republic of Florida (ROF) told the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday, February 15, that Nikolas Cruz, the man charged with the previous day’s deadly shooting spree at a Parkland, Florida, high school, was associated with his group.

On Wednesday, February 14, Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, allegedly entered the school with an AR-15 and opened fire, killing at least 17 people and injuring 14 more. Cruz left the scene but was later captured by police and has been charged with premeditated murder.

After self-described ROF members claimed on the discussion forum 4chan that Cruz had also been a member, the Anti-Defamation League called the ROF hotline and spoke with an ROF member who identified himself as Jordan Jereb.

Jereb, based in Tallahassee, is believed to be the leader of ROF. In 2016, he was arrested on charges of threatening a staffer in the office of Florida Governor Rick Scott because he was allegedly angry at the staffer’s son.

Read more: https://www.adl.org/blog/florida-white-supremacist-group-admits-ties-to-alleged-parkland-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility

[ck4829]

2. One of Trump's "very fine people"

[Botany]

3. +1

n/t

[askyagerz]

4. Not mental... Just hateful

This is why a leader's words matter

[gopiscrap]

14. Exactly

[NewJeffCT]

5. When Trump took office

Sessions took these groups off the FBI watch list.

[dewsgirl]

28. I was just about to post this exact same thing. I read yesterday, a very scary article about the

major uptick in shootings across the country lately, being related to a group of neo nazis called, the Atomwaffen. I'm not sure if a I read it on here, or on Twitter. It was scary AF.

[NewJeffCT]

29. This is from a little over a year ago

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-is-setting-us-free-white-supremacists-celebrate-reports-that-trump-will-dial-down-scrutiny-136039e12fad/

[dewsgirl]

44. Thank you, I remember this being one of the first things they did. SMH, it's going to take

Decades to undo the damage that is being done.

[DemocracyMouse]

34. Sessions did what??? Do explain

He took supremacists off the watch list? Is he therefore inciting violence? That would be the obvious, and very deadly, conclusion. When are any of these treasonous people going to be arrested? Do we have to make citizen's arrests?

[ancianita]

6. Shared this. Thank you. nt

[getagrip_already]

7. wore a maga hat, member of white nationalist group, violent thug...

check. check. check.

reported to the fbi for threats involving the school and guns a year ago. check.

Nothing done. Check.

[keithbvadu2]

26. But he did not carry Skittles

[noneof_theabove]

8. admitted...

CONSPIRACY = lock them all up

Any group who's members commit a crime of hate, violence, rape, pillage, etc

then all the members are aiding and abetting in criminal activity.

[appalachiablue]

9. K&R to circulate. White Supr/Hate ROF, not surprised. Good on ADL.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. I'm confused why they would admit or acknowledge that...

[Leghorn21]

13. Same, AC. Im a little leery. On the other hand, I wonder if some youthful idiot hubris and

sense of “winning” are involved here, and maybe they just do not care anymore about who/what they are these days...emboldened, empowered and such - ?

[ck4829]

15. I think that maybe they see it as OK to say it now

Like when an Islamist group claims responsibility for an attack, they know absolutely nothing's going to happen to them in Trump's America.

Same with the situation with the alt-right and Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer, members of the group have been linked to I think three deadly attacks now. The heaviest official response was that ISPs knocked them off. I just know that if it was called the Daily Jihad, the government response would have been a lot different.

[C Moon]

27. This is what they've been wanting. They've been hoarding weapons and getting ready for a civil war.

It excites them to no end.

[IronLionZion]

33. They want to be associated with school shootings?

Why would anyone want that?

[C Moon]

46. IMO, of course, they want violence and disorder at any cost.

[Devil Child]

11. Domestic terrorist

Not mental illness, Mr. President.

Remember this info when countering right wing lies that Cruz was "antifa" or other bullshit conspiracy theories.

[jmowreader]

12. Oh lord...

This is the Republic of Florida...

https://m.

Jordan Jereb is a 21-year-old punk who’s as wide as he is tall. The Republic of Florida is a couple dozen kids barely old enough to buy guns, and as you will see from their videos they’re a bunch of little kids who have absolutely no clue about soldiery. Their desire is to cause Florida to secede as a nation for whites only, but (1) there are only a few of them, (2) their leader can’t have any guns because he’s been convicted of crimes of violence and (3) there are far more of the people he wants to kick out of Florida than there are of the ROF.

There are two Republic of Florida groups. Jereb used to be in the “Republic of Florida” until he pissed everyone in it off...so, after he was voted off the island, he started the Real Republic of Florida.

I doubt Cruz was really in either group because they hate everyone who isn’t White Protestant, and Cruz is not that. I can totally believe Jereb would adopt him...

[hlthe2b]

17. Cruz was his adopted name. I have no reason to think he was not white protestant...?

[IronLionZion]

21. There are white protestant hispanics

in fact, there are all types of Hispanics: white, black, brown, Filipino, Catholic, protestant, born again, Mormon, etc.

[jmowreader]

36. Here's the ROF FAQ

https://republicofflorida.wordpress.com/faq/

They'd be a lot scarier if they weren't so pathetic.

[keithbvadu2]

50. "The US Army is Stealing our valor,..."

"The US Army is “Stealing our valor”,..."

Yeah! Right!

[jmowreader]

52. You missed the best part

There are 4 women for every 10 men in Jereb's army club. He claims this means the group is 40 percent women. Republican math at its finest.

[keithbvadu2]

53. Maybe they are more like the Pentagon which cannot account for hundreds of $billions.

Good catch.... amongst many.

[mikeysnot]

23. Why do I get the feeling that

ISIS and the taliban is laughing their asses off at this "training" video.

[bullwinkle428]

31. ROFLMAO!!! This is exactly like Monty Python's "People's Front of Judea" scene!

[keithbvadu2]

48. Looks like they took it down and someone saved it and reposted it.

ROF training video reposted

Looks like they took it down and someone saved it and reposted it.

(and some other videos)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=republic+of+florida+training+

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[jmowreader]

49. They've taken down all the videos on their channel

And gee, I really can't imagine why...

[Gothmog]

16. It is time to make another donation to the ADL

[hlthe2b]

18. and SPLC ...

[Ligyron]

19. and Cruz is Hispanic.

Friends said he was reluctant to speak spanish or associate with Hispanic culture.

[IronLionZion]

20. Adopted by a family named Cruz

and both adopted parents had passed away. There are self-hating Hispanics out there, who think they are better than others.

[cp]

22. i.e. Terrorist

[EarthFirst]

24. A page from the ISIS handbook?

Taking immediate responsibility for one of it’s own perpetrating headlines?

Is it terrorism yet?

[Puzzler]

25. Yes, TERRORIST!!! K&R

-Puzzler

[SunSeeker]

30. K & R for exposure.

[bullwinkle428]

32. Ted should be be happy - he's only the 2nd most despicable Cruz

in America, at least for one day.

[WestIndianArchie]

35. Racist/White supremacist group

The whole racist/white supremacist group should be arrested. They should be arrested and held without charges before they kill again. I don't understand what's so hard about it. They are terrorists

[jberryhill]

54. Arrested and held without charges

Because that sort of thing always works out well.

[Cold War Spook]

37. He is a terrorist

and should be treated as one. Either a trip to Gitmo or better still a CIA camp in Lithuania.

[AlexSFCA]

38. FBI has identified the biggest safety threat in the US - white supremacist groups

[marble falls]

39. Cheetolini would like to point out there are some real quality people in the Republic of Florida....

just like there had to be some good kids among the dead students.

We have to stop this crap. Pretty clear, too. Why are most of them white male RWers??

[HockeyMom]

40. So he was a combination of Adam Lanza and Dylan Roof?

Wonderful. My initial gut feeling as a Mother and Retired School Para was seek the Death Penalty. On second thought, NO. Life Imprisonment without the possibility of Parole. As a Mass Child Murderer and White Supremacist, let him make a lot of new "friends" in prison. Let HIM live the rest of his natural life in fear.

[mcar]

41. Terrorists

[7962]

42. Times are tough when the White Supremacists are recruiting Hispanics.

But then, I imagine their ranks are quite thin to begin with. Anytime a group has a march there are 30 marchers and 3000 protestors.

[Sunlei]

43. This kind of person has 'no one', no community, no family- they drift towards hate groups

They are so full of anger, depressed and I doubt they can even express why or what exactly they are angry at. Some shallow hate group message board accepts them, emboldens them.

[Gothmog]

47. Twice as many "homegrown" terrorists were prosecuted in federal court as "foreign" ones

Link to tweet

[Turbineguy]

51. What pride they must feel!

[workinclasszero]

55. WTF aren't these terrorists being rounded up right now?!

Oh right, silly me.