authorities say the number of white supremacist groups in san francisco is a serious problem. abc 7 is live in the tender loin with the story. >> we're in the tender loin because according to the d.a.this is where they seem to concentrate here, investigators came to realize this following a meeting. a year ago. in november two mexican nationals were attacked outside of this bar by a group of white supremacists yelling as they beat one unconscious. >> white power, san francisco native, get out of our town. >> three men were arrested. the man in the middle testified against the other two. >> exchange forgiving us information about the skinhead movement here in san francisco, he was offered a plea bargain. >> westin served 10 months. other two have not been sentenced but westin gave information about white supremacist groups in san francisco. and investigators found paraphernalia inside of one of the apartments. according to gascone there are three groups in the city. >> we have in excess of 50 or. >> individuals that are documented white supremacists and another 150 operating wi

they are not white supremacists.ause of these groups that commit crimes and do the crap they do, people are going to look at us bad. >> at utah state prison, staff estimates that almost 1,000 inmates, roughly one-quarter of the prison population, are active gang members. >> we are around our rivals all day. anything can happen to me. >> stick with your gang. stick with who you know and where you're safe. >> it's not a gang or an organization. being a skinhead is a way of life. >> it's not illegal to belong to a gang. however, when those gangs start to become involved in criminal activity, then we will separate those gangs. and we will classify them as a security threat group. >> usp security threat group, or stg, was formed in 2001 after five inmates were stabbed in a massive gang attack. >> it was almost to the point where, if an inmate came in, he almost had to join a gang just for protection. it was at that time that we realized that we need to do something to try to curb gang activity within our prison system bef

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all admitted to being white supremacists. the d.a.say they yelled "white power" and "get out of town". one arrested ended up testifying against the other two men and weston gave an array of information on how the groups are growing in san francisco. >> i think the most san franciscoin woz never thought they'd have three white supremacist groups between the city. and nearly another 150 are so that are associates operating within the city. >> and one of the victims still lives in san francisco, and was at the press conference, we decided not to show his face because, understandably he is fearful. he's also under protection of the mexican government. the other victim returned to mexico after at tack. but he did manage to testify against attackers. he says many of the white supremacists actually start out in prison coming out of california prison system they're highly organized there, somehow, some are coming here to san francisco, and gascone described it as a very serious and threatening problem in san francisco. i'm live in th

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. >> the white supremacists are a small minority here. when he was in general population, he and one of the fellow guys he clicked up with were the targets of many, you know, violent acts. he was placed in segregation for his own protection for a little while. the violence got so bad for him. he admits how ignorant he was back then. he sees that he -- his way of thinking was incorrect. >> it was kind of crazy. i mean, seen a lot of stuff. i've been to rallies. i mean, all that stuff. i've seen 40-foot crosses burn and stuff like that. that's what we live by, that's just how we was. i didn't know anything different from it. just how stuff was. >> despite his past affiliation with the aryan nation, inside pendleton, michael jones learned how to get along with the very people he loved to hate. >> i mean, this is a real cool individual, probably the coolest individual you could meet over here. know what i'm saying? if you need something, if this commissary come in and you ain't got nothing, this ain't no white and black thing. we're all equal

we have active white supremacist groups operating within our city and county. we're going have to work together to make sure it's not tolerated in our county. >> prosecuted wanted hate crime enhancement but a jury did not go along with thaflt gascone says there are white supremacist group was almost 200 sympathizers. >> and late news this afternoon from the san francisco police department. police have arrested a teenager for last month's shooting of a 5-year-old girl. the girl shot walking with her sister and her father. police used surveillance video to identify their suspect and caught him yesterday afternoon with a group of other suspects who rfr round up on weapons charges. the suspect faces various charges including inflicting bodily injury on a victim five years old or younger. >> the santa clara county district attorney will announce what is discovered during an investigation into accusations deanza college baseball players raped a teen-aged girl. the district attorney campaigned on the promise of reexexamining what happened. the previous d.a.declined to

arabs in alliance with white supremacist nato as world and the message they're trying to send out with this lynching of moammar gadhafi and your piece was absolutely right they wouldn't actually ever show anything similar in relation to white people or the soldiers of nato so the message that is let me just ask you that clearly we've seen many many celebrating the victory of the fall of the gadhafi regime and his death and we've seen of course many people risking their own lies for a cause for that change in regime are you actually saying then that this wasn't people driven at all and that these people were prepared to risk their lives just for nato and for western interests. when you are a revolutionary leader of the global south you and i mean when you nationalized oil when you redistribute your wealth when you when you build your country up to be the country with the highest livingstone's in africa inevitably those forces which are against that development internally and internationally will oppose you and so these rebel factions have always been in alliance with the european powers

we have established evidence that we have active white supremacist groups. we have to work together make sure that type of activity is not tolerated in our county. >> reporter: as for why the white power groups are coming here the d.a. says that remains unclear. two of the men convicted in the attack are still behind bars. a third was aslerele after spending about ten months in jail. >> really troubling news. monty, thank you. san francisco police say they have made an arrest after a 5-year-old girl was caught in the cross fire of a gun battle last month. police arrested a 16-year-old boy after a foot chase yesterday. the shooting happened last month when the girl was walking with her father on third street and two young men began shooting at each other. the girl was shot in the left knee, but is now on the mends. >>> new legislation is unveiled in cupertino to try to force pg&e to get rid of a specific type of gas line. a line many say is an accident waiting to happen. jerry hill and paul seang say it could have been prevented if they acted to replace the ty

. >> san francisco's district attorney revealed last spring that several white supremacist groups are active in the city. police are compiling the information so they can try to determine a pattern. >> this goes across a spectrum. race, gender, lbgt, it's everywhere. >> while the anti-defamation league says that there has also been a rash of swastika graffiti across the city. now the police point out that not all of these things are being committed by white supremacist groups. they also say one of the reasons we might find a lot of this in san francisco is because some of these crimes are sometimes committed to transients who might be suffering from mental illness or anger management issues. that's what they are going to explore in the case of what happens here at civic center plaza. live in san francisco, trac tra grant, nbc bay area news. >> we're just learning the identity of a motorcyclist killed over the weekend, allegedly run over by a shuttle driver who dragged him for more than half a mile. the alameda county coroner's office identified him at 51-year-old george lopez of stock

. >> too many white supremacists. a stunning statement about a city known as a place of

king, white supremacists bombed the family's montgomery, alabama home.nita and her infant daughter survived. also with us, reverend joseph lowrie, a young united methodist preacher when he met king. lowrie would help co-found the sclc with dr. king. the reverend would later become the longest reigning president of sclc, serving 20 years. and this huntsville, alabama native would go on to give the invocation at the inauguration of america's first black president. >> do you ever have a moment where you still just break down and cry in losing your general, essentially, certainly your good friend? but do you all ever have those moments? and when do those happen? >> i'm too tough. too strong. too physical. >> is that right? >> too male to cry in front of you. i think we've all cried from time to time. and it's what we're crying about, we have to make sure that it's right. >> one of the most visible on our panel of the friends of king is reverend jesse jackson, who joined king's movement when he was just 22 years old. dr. king would name jackson heaved sclc's

. >> reporter: george says the men are white supremacists. witnesses say they shouted racial slurs while kicking the men on the street in the tender loin. he says the city known for tolerance is home to a violent group. >> we have good evidence that there is organized white supremist activity in the city. we have three active groups, we have 40 to 50 people documented white supremists and 150 associates. >> reporter: police say immigrants and members of the lbgt community are most often the target. >> it's important that the violence is not an acceptable element of living gay. it's just not acceptable. no more violence. >> reporter: he's hoping victims will reach out to get hate off the street. the district attorney's office says only 1 in 20 hate crimes are reported. many immigrants aren't even aware that they're victims of hate crimes because they may not understand english. investigators say it's important for witnesses to come forward and report those crimes and help prosecute them. jean elle, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, jean. >>> ju

as the shock collar of the white supremacist gang.aken aback. i was expecting this mean, tough, hardcore guy. instead it was this tommy that we came to know who seemed shy, a little timid. a little withdrawn. >> i have a pretty good heart. my mom, she's always had foster kids. and she's worked in a group home. so, i mean, i've always wanted to do what she did. i always wanted to help somebody. and i really think i can. >> during the shoot, he was brought in for questioning when another inmate accused him of execution. >> hey. >> watching lieutenant fox deal with tommy was very interesting. they had a certain rapport. i would almost call it a professional rapport. >> come on in. have a seat. so, you want to give me your story? >> to be honest, i don't really have one. i mean, i feel like this dude is trying to get out of trouble. he knows who i am. i go under the bus every time. >> they seemed to know what each other's boundaries were. they talked in a very amicable way. and fox was giving tommy advice on how to stay out of trouble. >>

. >> you know, you are wearing a white dress because you are a white supremacist. >> no, greg, but thank. >> that's a wonderful insult. thank you very much. >> do you agree with garofolo? >> no, i do not agree with janeen garafo. she is doing what gets us in trouble in this country. she is making giant, sweeping statements. to accuse all republicans of being massage nis, homophobic people is over the line. >> but only 10% are. just kidding. i can make that joke. >> and herman cane too. i just thought it was so insulting to call all black voters brainwashed. i think, no, they historically voted for a party that has their best interest. >> that's weird. that's the party of slavery. >> hold on. what part of 1964 are you forgetting, sir? >> what part of 1968 are you forget ?g. >> that's when the tigers won the world series. >> i am not refering to that. >> have you been covering presidential elections for 35 years. >> yes. >> and hence the tie. >> thank you. >> well, that's why i think herman cane made a brilliant move. herman cane's advisors who go by the name of herman cane. if he is going

predatory inmates at holman but few more memorable than steven parker, a self-proclaimed leader of a white supremacistarker is serving life without parole for murdering his stepmother and attempting to kill his father. >> about six months ago, i cut a dude's throat down there in population. >> what happened? >> well, he was beating me out of some money. and me and him worked a deal and i kept going back to him. and i said, you need to pay me my [ bleep ] money. you need to pay me what you owe me. and he knew me from other prisons. he knew what would eventually happen if he didn't pay me. i finally got tired of it and went and cut his throat. >> parker has assaulted numerous other inmates and staff members. he has spent most of his time at holman in the administrative segregation unit. >> he's an impulsive type of a guy. he's violent. he's in here for violence and apparently the time has not taught him any differently. >> can i be rehabilitated? yeah, i could be rehabilitated. if i could figure out how to get over the hatred. because i have a lot of hatred. i have a lot of hatred for people in general,

. >> walter "big foot" farmer's involvement in the white supremacist gang, the aryan brotherhood eventuallye pelican bay shu. but that didn't end his loyalty to his gang. >> of course, you have to earn your bone, which basically means you have to earn your blood in, blood out. you know, and i got my assignment and went after that. >> and what was the assignment? >> it was to take out an individual that was on the hit list for the aryan brotherhood. >> and who was that person, and what did it involve? was he a rival gang or -- >> no, he was a white gang. he wasn't an asset to us as a gang or he wasn't an asset to his own race. and he was just a headache. >> most shu inmates are single-celled. but due to overcrowding, that's not always possible. a circumstance farmer used to his advantage. >> i moved in with the guy to take him out. >> and when you say he was taken out, what happened? did you personally -- >> my job was to go in there and kill him. and i went in there with the intention of killing him, but i stabbed him several times and the damn knife bent. we used a knee brace. we have to b

if i see swastikas in there, my clues tell me white supremacist.lls me a little about him. if it's unruly, unkept, is he a drug addict? so i take all of those things into account before i look, depending on what i'm investigating. >> this was just a routine cell search. this time nothing suspicious was found. but that's not always the case. >> as you see here, we have a wide variety of weapons that have been discovered here at folsom. they go all the way from the big type of weapons all the way down to the slashing-type of instruments. they'll roll newspapers up. they will actually make real crude type of darts that are dipped in feces or urine and are shot at staff. we see these bottles here that are taped up together. one of the things that they do here is they secrete things in their rectums. the individual that had these bottles was actually trying to stretch his rectum up to be able to smuggle in some dynamite into our institution. >> another way weapons can get into prison is through the mail. while officers cannot read personal letters, they

leagues, but he said i would rather be treated and i asked him about it and he said i was a white supremacist. that doesn't mean -- i believe flights were supreme, they were superior, to blacks in every way and that jackie robinson were allowed to cross the line of my jaw use would crumble. i couldn't go back to my family. my community would distrust me because this is what we were raised to believe. he said i had a black family in my house all the time they were cleaning the dishes, along, they would entertain with us. the fall of having somebody treated as an equal or someone that might be treated as superior because the starting lineup but i'm not, i couldn't handle it. but he told branch rickey that day that if he had to he would play. he backed down. this is a huge moment for the team because they are essentially choosing the game, choosing their love for the sport of the prejudice. they are at least willing to live with this and see what happens which is all bricky ever hoped for. he is the general manager and president and part-owner of the dodgers i should mention and a fascinating ch

he was a valid white supremacist who took pride for a long time in what he did. in the end, his actions and trying to get him clemency completely changed his mind. and he said, in the free world i was free but is locked in a prison inside myself because of the hate i carried in my heart there this is really touched my heart what he did. and heart of many others were want to especially for the last 10 years all we have heard about is how evil the islamic faith can be. he's a survivor of my hate. is deep islamic belief gave him the strength to forgive the unforgivable. that should be an example for us all. here i go back to the title of my book, which is derived from a quotation by mahatma ghandi many decades ago. you can see mahatma ghandi is back in the 1920s, 30s, they're operating on the same principle. quite remarkable. i couldn't hope for a better example. guide he says, my reading of the quran has convinced me that the faces of islam is not violence but is unadulterated peace. which is exactly the same rentable that others were operating on also. it's quite

nationalism sent to omaha, nebraska, and who are run out of omaha, nebraska, by racial terrorists, by white supremacists who are eventually run out of lansing. and his father is killed and lynched in lansing. so when we think about malcolm x, malcolm x transforms himself over time based on the situation that he finds himself in. he finds himself growing up in an america where small d democracy does not exist, and even though he joins the nation of islam and talks about armageddon and says that the whole country is doomed, malcolm spends the rest of his life trying to transform these institutions even to the point, like sonia sanchez said, when he becomes this human rights activist which he always was, he becomes a global evangelist for a human rights version of islam. he becomes a revolutionary pan-africanist that people like kwame carmichael are going to pattern their own lives after. so malcolm is always on the cutting edge of transformation and self-determination. and the book we're talking about, manning marable's malcolm x, the life of reinvention, it's important for everybody out there to read it

i'm doing a white supremacist, montana's most wanted. i had a great capture. we have been off since june. we were cancelled and now i'm doing specials and moving to lifetime. i'm doing the specials and we caught a guy in brazil i have been looking for for 14 years. people in brazil saw the show and brought him down to the police station. tomorrow, saturday night for two hours you will see 50 of the worst. we caught five guys over the summer. going on to lifetime, doing my specials with fox. >> john walsh, not stopping in the fight for justice. thank you so much, john. >> now a check of the weather from al. >> announcer: today's weather is brought to you by party city where you can get all your last-minute halloween essentials. party city, nobody has more halloween for less. >> as we look ahead to the weekend here in the northeast it will be a rough one. we have rain and snow in the inland sections. rain and showers in the pacific northwest through the plains. southern interior states looking good. exception being florida with showers and thunderstorms. sunday,

prominence of the men involved, no doubt, and in part i think, also because of their feel for the white supremacist voyeurism around black sexuality. anyway, there i was sitting in a public hot tub overlooking the pacific [laughter] it was my birthday. all around me, suddenly everyone was talking about sexual harassment. that is a great present for someone who had pioneered the legal claim as a legal student 20 years before [applause] back when, as gloria steinem was put it, sexual-harassment was just life. i spent the hearings inside nbc watching in their entirety talking with tom brokaw and off the air doing commentary. it felt like being in touch with the entire country in a mass of consciousness-changing session on a subject i have been trying to make real to people other than those who did it or those who had done to them for almost two decades. this, by the way, was back before the ideological move had been made, making the term " victim" to a dirty word. a victim-blaming move casting it into a false mode so passive that no victimized person would ever want to recognize themselves in it. [app