"Not something we can ignore anymore": White supremacist, extremist activity on the rise across

“Not something we can ignore anymore”: White supremacist, extremist activity on the rise across Colorado, experts say


Underneath an overpass somewhere in Denver, two members of a white supremacist group painted their blue and white logo so large that they needed a ladder.

A video by Identity Evropa posted Sept. 3 shows two men in sunglasses using rollers to paint the triangle logo before posing in front of it, lit only by the flames of a torch. The video ends with white text on a black screen that reads: “Rediscover Your Identity.”

It’s one of the latest acts in a wave of increased activity by white supremacists and other extremists in Colorado. The emboldened groups are the most active they have been in the state in recent years, and the number of known incidents of hate and bias in Colorado is rising dramatically, experts said.

The Anti-Defamation League has recorded 23 incidents of extremism or anti-Semitism in the state through July of this year, though that number is expected to rise dramatically after data about a rash of white supremacist propaganda in August and September is recorded. In 2017, the Jewish civil rights nonprofit counted 62 incidents, up from 46 the year before.

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