FARGO — Dozens of volunteers arrived Sunday, Sept. 18, at an immigrant business center here to remove hate speech earlier spray painted onto murals outside the building.
For the third time since July, the vandalism touting a white nationalist group known as “Patriot Front” has appeared around Fargo. On Sept. 4, the International Market Plaza at 1345 Main Ave, which is home to about 17 immigrant-owned businesses, was hit by stenciled spray paint onto murals outside the building.
Volunteers who showed up Sunday began by taking down the damaged murals, heavy work for a warm late summer afternoon. Other volunteers swept the narrow sidewalk along Main Avenue and pulled weeds from the cracks.
Once the murals came down, volunteers began painting the Main Avenue side of the International Market Plaza.
The Patriot Front is a white nationalist hate group that formed after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights nonprofit that tracks hate groups.
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