Clown Posse Wants Supremacist to Face Music

SANDPOINT — Be afraid, robocalling racists. Be very afraid. Time was when you could hide behind some hijacked local number to spew intolerance in anonymity.

But if a resident of Charlottesville, Va., gets his way, one Bonner County resident accused of funding and sending such calls — as well as illegally distributing racist media on vehicles at Sandpoint High School, harassing elected officials in three states and sending hate mail to a local business owner — will face the music for his actions.

Accordion music. Played by clowns. Lots of them, playing for as many days in a row as possible. Right outside the man’s home on West Pine Street.

The man who plans to send in the clowns is Justin Beights, an accordionist himself, as well as a citizen who decided it was time to push back against the negative press that descended on his city after the so-called Unite the Right rally took place there a little more than a year ago.

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Justin Beights, of Charlottesville, Va., has applied to bring a host of accordion-playing clowns to play for an extended period of time across the street from area resident Scott D. Rhodes, in response to racist robocalls that have been associated with a white supremacist podcast Rhodes has been identified as hosting.