and they wanted an all-white country, they had their own hip new swastika. full-on nazi organization. and back then south africa was under apartheid. but the apartheid government restricted where black people could live, didn't allow them to study and stripped their right to vote. when they would hold their rallies, the apartheid government would be, nazis, no, i like racism as much as the other guy, but nazis? come on, people! i think we can all agree as humans, or as black people, that nazis is a step too far, people! it's a step too far! even in apartheid, south africa. ( laughter ) but today, in america -- ( laughter ) we're not even at that point? seven months into his term, 41 months to go, by the way, and the president of the united states has officially legitimized whit white supremacs basically saying we need to see things from the nazis poif, march a mile in their boots. you would think this would be the straw that broke the camel's back. turns out the president's party has a lot of camels. >> a new cbs poll showed 67% of republicans approved the w

swastika carrying neo nazis. and anti racism protectors has brought new universal condemnation. a senior republican paul ryan tweeting we must be clear white supremacy is repulsive this bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. there can be no moral ambiguity. the only significant voice of support last night came from the former leader of the ku klux klan david do you who said. thank you president trump feel honesty and courage to tell the truth about charlottesville and condemn the leftist terrorists. there is reported to be deep unhappiness among some senior white house stalled. over the president's comments he hadn't been due to say anything. and significantly a new intervention this time for the two four but living republican presidents. george hw bush and george w. bush saying there is no room for bigotry or anti semitis. in today's america. donald trump left new york today to resume his hardly quiet so relaxing holiday. more isolated from the political a business establishment that if anytime since he took offic. jon sopel bbc news washington. and a brief time ago

. >>> on to developing news in the east bay where police are investigating flyers found with swastikasslim message. >> neighborhoods held a diversity rally last night to say that kind of hate is not welcome in alameda. amy holly foold lye for us at the center. amy. >> reporter: hi, reggie. one of flyers was found near this islamic center here on alameda on santa clara avenue. here's a look at the flyer. take a look at what is creating so much outrage in alameda. about four of these were found. residents showed how they felt about the hateful flyer and held a rally here at the islamic center last night saying this hate has no place here. a woman whose husband found two of the flyers, she's the one who called police. >> so it was very unnerving to have that brought into our home. we knew immediately we had toe stand up, report it. the majority of hate crimes and hate incidents go unreported, so we knew that it it was important to stand up and be counted. >> reporter: this isn't first sign of hate in alameda. swastikas appeared at the temple israel last week. this issue will now be addres

. >>> on to developing news in the east bay, police are investigating flyers found if swastikas and anslim message. >> neighbors say that kind of hate is not welcome in their community. amy hollyfield live for us. >> reporter: one of the flyers has found near this islamic center here on santa clara avenue. here's a look at the flyer. it has a swastika ton and also a woman wearing a hijab. the couple that found two of these flyers called police. they also attended a rally at the center last night to send a message this is not wanted in alameda. the hateful message had an emotional impact on residents. >> i was sad. you know, i was disappointed that something like that fwhob our community and our country, in our world. >> this isn't the first sign of hate in alameda. last week some swastikas appeared at tifrm israel. this has the attention of the city council. it will addressed at the next meeting. one topic being discussed as a possibility is some training so people can quickly spot and report hateful messages. reporting live in alameda amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >>> antioch police ask

new this morning five northern california teenagers could face serious charges accused of writing swastikas other hateful messages. the girls longer room had also been burglarized. the custodian says this is stunning since school starts today. >> disheartening. you put your heart and soul into maintaining schools and it gets destroyed in just a few hours. >> police say none of the suspects and the motive is the mystery. >> new details in the bizarre chicago murder case that has ties to the bay area. wyndham lathem and financial officer andrew warren are accused of killing another man. they weren't taken into custody here in the bay area after a nationwide man hunt. they returned to the chicago area saturday. prosecutors say that the two planned to kill a chicago hairdresser and then themselves. the victim was stabbed more than 40 times. the judge denied bond for both suspects. >>> at 5:57 right now. researchers say they've located the wreck of "uss indianapolis," it played a critical part of the atomic bombing of hiroshima. an expedition crew located the wreckage on the floor more than 18,0

swastika. it is the same exact thing. especially after charlottesville, "the new york times" printed this thing about robert e.s letter and now he wasn't for slavery. come on, now. he led the confederacy. >> the difference, obviously between a george washington and a thomas jefferson is -- and robert e. lee, robert e. lee was fighting to destroy this country, was fighting to -- >> yeah. but if you read "the new york times" they found some letter he was having reservations about -- >> i'm wondering when you heard the president of the united states in his many comments in the wake of charlottesville, you know, he said one thing on saturday about many sides, violence on many sides. then monday he gave a teleprompter speech, you know, talking against kkk and neo nazis, white supremacists. and then the next day on this kind of rambling, impromptu off-the-cuff said, again, at the torch-lit vigil of hundreds of neo-nazis chanting "jews will not replace us and other awful things, he said there were fine people there. >> in my opinion, i think that when he's not reading a teleprompter, he reveals his true self. >> that

the synagogue.in piedmont justine waldman kron 4 news (steve) earlier this week we told you about hate fliers on a street in alameda. fliers with swastikas were found at a sidewalk on sherman street on sunday. they also showed a woman wearing a hijab with a threatening message. last week, vandals smashed windows at temple israel in alameda. police have not yet made any arrests in these incidents. grant) el cerrito police are on the hunt for a man they say tried to sexually assault a woman yesterday. now they have released surveillance pictures of the suspect. it happened around 6-45 last night on stockton avenue and balra drive. according to police... the suspect grabbed the woman and tried to assault her. that's when the woman screamed... scaring the suspect... who ran away. police say neighbors heard her scream and saw the man take off. he was gone by the time police got there. if you have any information on this crime... you're asked to contact el cerrito police. (grant) u-c berkeley police are also searching for a suspect... they say last wednesday around six pm-- this man was seen in the university's gym...stealing several cell phon

swastika or nazi flag. to brand president trump with this is wrong. >> guys, we have brand new video of the suspect i want to quick. this is the individual who rammed his car, this is video of james fields at the white nationalist rally, he's in the white shirt we're told, holding a shield. his former high schoolteacher had told cnn fields had a fondness for nazis and adolf hitler. what's your reaction to this? >> it's sad, because we see young white men radicalized online, an online community that is finding itself feeling dislocated from associate. united by racial hatred, feelings of superiority. we would call some of these people isis, but in america, they're white supremacists. you see a 20-year-old who rammed his car deliberately and killed -- i mean her name is hell heather heyer. a 32-year-old woman, anti-racist activist, and apparently there are many sides according to donald trump, heather heyer who died, and james alex fields a nazi sympathizer, hitler sympathizer who rammed his car and killed her. i don't see the moral equivalents here, and i don't see why it's so difficult for people to come out

incidents with the swastika was a guy who spray church.his own guest: that is not true, we have ozens of incidents in our database, you are wrong about that. host: new jersey, independent is joe.is caller: yeah, thanks for the doing.work you are what i'm calling about is my reaction to charlottesville, i been politically inactive in terms of being an or marching since the '60s, but after seeing what charlottesville, to me, and because of the it makes s waffling, me feel like i've got to get involved. subtly a president who elling white supremacist and nazis that they're okay, that some of them are okay and some of them are bad and some of the other side are bad and some of the other are bad. how do you feel about that? i can tell you this. you know, i think there is a of lem and i think a lot people in the media and public have underestimated the the ligence and organizational capacity of the new white supremacist movement. you, members of that group do feel they are getting the e signals from president of support. the message that he put out monuments and te raising the notion that or washington would be the next monuments that were taken down, tha

new 2017 outbacks. ends august 31. (pam) alameda police are looking into what they are calling... a 'hate incident' involving swastikaaden flyers.. which a man found on sherman street. kron four's spencer blake spoke with the man who found them.. spencer is live in alameda tonight. spencer, where exactly were these posted? they weren't posted, per se - he found them lying on the sidewalk near his home. "it's pretty shocking and disturbing."that's the reaction from this woman who lives on sherman street, to some recently-discovered propaganda on her street.she learned about it from a local facebook group."from what i saw it was an image of a muslim woman and a swastika." and it also contains a threatening message - help me kill you, stupid.neil crawford is the man who found two of the flyers lying on the sidewalk near his house."i was just floored to see something like that in this neighborhood, right? i mean, totally out of place. picked it up, walked it down there, threw it away."after the second one, he showed his wife, and they called police. "it was very unnerving to have that brought into our home. we knew immed

news 4's jackie bensen with more on what police are worried about right now. >> reporter: sunday afternoon at the aquatic center in the capitol hill neighborhood is when witnesses say a man with swastika tattoos on his torso used a vile raich yell epithet to a lifeguard responding to people concerns concerns about the man's behavior. >> a flag burned and lying on the sidewalk. >> reporter: also sunday, a shift at a local hospital to find someone set fire to her gay pride flag. >> that's what police told me. >> she responded by flying the burned flag one story higher and placing this poster in her window. also sunday, a hate-based incident near east jefferson street. about 2:15 p.m. a man heard a couple conversing in arabic and made anti-muslim comments and assaulted the husband. >> people gathered in a circumstance tol pray for peace and tolerance. attorney general mark herring attended. he was asking if he believes the murder of heyer meets the standards to be domestic terrorism. >> it's clear that the person, the suspect weaponized his car and intended to and strike as much fear as he can. to me, that's an act of terrorism. >> reporter: police are still looking for the suspect in th

new tonight at 9.... an alameda man was surprised to find anti-islam flyers littered on the sidewalk of his street. the cards feature swastikas and a threat to kill muslims. kron four's spencer blake is live in alameda tonight. spencer we understand there was a small, impromptu rally of sorts after this story came out? i'm at the islamic center of alameda.about ten people showed up earlier with signs of support after hearing about the islamophobic message on the flyers - one that is certainly enough to disturb people who live around here. sunday morning neil crawford found one of these flyers on his street.it shows a woman wearing a hijab, with the threatening message "help me kill you, stupid.""it's clearly something out of the ordinary. swastika's very visible."at first, he just threw the swastika-laden card in the trash.but when he found a second one on the sidewalk, he decided to let police know. an officer found a third one during his investigation on sherman street."i was sad. i was disappointed that something like that would be in our community, in our country, in our world." crawford and his wife posted about the flye

it has a swastika and you see a woman wearing a hajib with the words, quote, help me kill you, stupid. unquote. the new counter culture as well. you can imagine neighbors are very shocked. >> i was sad. i was disappointed that something like that would be in our community and our country, in our world. >> the majority of hate crimes and hate incidents go unreported so we knew it was important to stand up and be counted. >> this isn't the first time this has happened. crawford said he later found a flier near his home just blocks from the islamic center in alameda. police found a third one. this string of hate messages comes after last week's vandalism of alameda's temple israel. rocks were thrown at windows. police are investigating it as a hate crime. >>> continuing coverage now out of washington, d.c., where president trump recently laid out a new plan for the nation's largest war. the commander in chief is vowing the u.s. will win in afghanistan. and to do that he wants more proof but he's not laying out any numbers. "today in the bay's" edward lawrence is live in washington with a closer look at th

swastikas. is all aboutpeech recasting and reappropriated the farewell address, saying that washington warned us against excessive debt, and the new deal has been too freespending. he warned us we should focus on religion as the mainstay of our , and he warnedty us against foreign entanglements and being involved in foreign wars. now, what is fascinating about this odious misappropriation -- in addition to the photos look like an outtake from "the twilight zone" -- is that washington warned against exactly these kind of pretend patriots who would manipulate his wisdom and the founding wisdom and argue that dividing the country was representing the founder's vision for the country, when nothing could be further from the truth. in particular, the dangers of a foreign government trying to influence our own elections and internal decisions, and the german-american bund was eventually exposed as being taken money from adolf hitler. washington's farewell really takes a hit between world war i and that association with isolationists and anti-semites. unfairly, it starts to fall out of favor. it is briefly revived during the vietnam war,

new tonight some ha creeps have taped racist slurs and antisemitic signs to the front door of a church. it's the greater praise temple ministries in dumfries, virginia, pictures of a klansman holding a confederate flag, swastikas, all of it plastered on the front door. police are checking whether the idiots were caught on security cameras. >>> at university of maryland the president wallace loh is taking action to fight racism on the campus. it's starting with three steps, conversation with race, a height bias task force and honoring -- hate bias task force and honoring a murdered student. here's stephanie ramirez. >> reporter: tomorrow there will be a moment of stye lens at 12:05 -- silence at 12:05 here in bowie, maryland. this is where lieutenant richard collins, ii lost his life a few months ago. >> it's sad. some people don't know. it's a start but something that should have happened long ago from the predominantly white fraternity that was like very insulting. >> reporter: this is some of what's going on in the hearts and minds in the university of maryland students on their second day back to class and some don't expect it to get any easier. >> there are dozens of students here who are being impacted by

new catastrophic event. two weeks ago, we thought which were going to be nuked by north korea and all of a suggest we see swastikasrches ready to burn down this country. if you are silent against this particular president, even if he is in your party, you to account for your you have to account fo your messaging. >> are you saying you support a president who's trapped in neo nazi and language and support and i would think of encouragement in many ways. >> i don't care what of the 50 states you live in, you have to say whether you agree with that. the problem is these comments from last week are disgusting and disparaging. his republican party still stood by him >> i was going to say -- nothing of the lgbtq community. >> maya angelou shows you who they are and you can believe them. >> when leaders are silent and intentionally or unintentionally, they agree with the kk ak and they wear the cat. >> i think it is remarkable when senators and congressmen come back to dc and you will ask them straight up what do you believe or do you think the president is right. they'll spin tax reform and healthcare and all these diff

new focus on white supremacists and right wing extremism. at last weekend's rally in charlottesville, white nationalists were seen carrying flags with swastikaser neo-nazi symbols, a head swimming display of symbolism of anyone who's not white, male, allied with a far right ultra conservative ideology and fits in with what the southern poverty law center has seen across the nation with over 900 active hate groups and white supremacist and antimuslim groups in particular. joining me now, former investigator for the southern poverty law center and carol anderson, professor of african-american studies at emory university. professor, when you look at the data coming out, again, from the southern poverty law center, as well as the headlines we've unfortunately had to report on, not only within the last couple of weeks, but within the last three or four years, what does this tell you in terms of what we're seeing happening today? >> i believe that what we're really seeing is the kind of culmination or the result of years of trolling in the ground of white supremacy, and legitimizing that. first through dog whistles, such as welfare queen, thug, law

a swastika and woman wearing a hijab with the words, quote, help me kill you, stupid. at the bottom it says, the question, the new counter culture. as you can imagine neighbors are shocked. >> i was sad. i was disappointed that something like that would be in our community and our country, in our world. >> the majority of hate crimes and hate incidents go unreported so we knew that it was important to stand up and be counted. >> this isn't the first time this has happened. crawford says he later found another flier in alameda. this string of hate messages comes after last's vandalism of alameda's temple israel. rocks were thrown at windows. police are investigating it as a hate crime. >> president trump is getting ready to head to arizona for a camping style rally later today. this comes after he laid out his plan for the war on afghanistan. it will include more troops but the president didn't give specific numbers. "today in the bay's" edward lawrence is live in washington this morning with details. the president did reveal during his speech. >> reporter: good morning, marcus. right now the secretary of defense

match of a news don frens in guilded lobby of trump tower angrily asserting that so-called alt left activists were just as responsible for the bloody confrontation as marchers, brandishing swastikasnfederate battle flags anti-semitic banners and trump/pence signs. no one is more careful about checking facts before he speaks and he never goes off without having all the information checked. >> that's one of the more ridiculous things he's ever said. one of the more ridiculous claims. obviously he doesn't. he shoots from the hip, from the lip. from his whatever. h his with ever all the time. it is just a ridiculous thing to say. that the ridiculous part of it. tragic and appalling part of it of course was that he gave legitimacy to neonazis and the kkk and white supremacists of all stripes. and by calling them nice people. and saying they were just nice people out there just having a nice demonstration the night before. and it wasn't that at all. it was white supremacist holding a klan reminiscent torch-lit parade through the streets of charlottesville in which they were shouting various things including jew will not replace us. this is -- this is beyond appalling. and how does this

the synagogue.in piedmont justine waldman kron 4 news (tiffany) earlier this week we told you about hate fliers on a street in alameda. fliers with swastikaswere found at a sidewalk on sherman street on sunday. they also showed a woman wearing a hijab with a threatening message. last week, vandals smashed windows at temple israel in alameda. police have not yet made any arrests in these incidents. (tiffany @ bam) back to our top story this morning. despite resistance from local leaders, two rallies organized by conservative groupswill be allowed to go forward this weekend. so who's behind the effort? turns out both the freedom rally on saturday and the "no to marxism" rallyon sunday in berkeley are being organized by a group of leaders across the country. one of them is this man, ansen hatcher. he is a former marine living in idaho who decided to help after seeing violence take place at other rallies. ansen is a married father living in idaho who says, the symbols of hateand division like the nazi flag and weapons are not what this weekend's gatheringis about. and they're discouraging people from bringing that to these events.<> (tiffany @