Detroit Venue Ejects White Nationalist Conference

The Detroit Free Press reports:

The leader of a controversial rightwing group canceled their conference in Detroit, alleging they were kicked out of the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, where he said they had plans to hold events. The move comes after Detroit police had responded to a dispute involving the group on Friday.

Nicholas Fuentes of the America First Political Action Conference said Saturday that the group was setting up the stage at the industrial center when people with the center told them they would not be allowed to proceed. Fuentes has been described by some groups who monitor hate groups as a white nationalist who promotes racist, sexist, antisemitic and homophobic views.

Fuentes often holds his conferences near the location of more mainstream conservative conferences. This weekend, Turning Point Action, led by Charlie Kirk, is holding a conference at Huntington Place in Detroit, where former president Donald Trump spoke Saturday.

Read the full article. As I reported yesterday, Fuentes and his entourage of “groypers” were also ejected from the Turning Point event on Friday in a scene which included antisemitic abuse lobbed at the venue’s security guards.

AFPAC IV is cancelled.

Yesterday we finished setting up our stage and then the venue called the cops to kick us out 24 hours before the event.

It would have been our biggest yet with ~2,000 attendees.

Banned from TPUSA, banned from doing AFPAC. This isn’t over. pic.twitter.com/LrPljnJclx

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) June 15, 2024