Neo-Nazi group targets Gov. Maura Healey’s Arlington residence

Gov. Maura Healey avowed that Massachusetts gained’t tolerate fear-mongering from white supremacists after a neighborhood neo-Nazi group held an illustration exterior her residence in Arlington Saturday. 

Massachusetts State Police mentioned a gaggle of about 25 gathered exterior Healey’s residence round 8:43 p.m. A state police spokesperson mentioned officers consider the people are members of NSC-131, which the Anti-Defamation League describes as a New England-based neo-Nazi group that “seeks to kind an underground community of white males who’re prepared to struggle in opposition to their perceived enemies by way of localized direct actions.”

Saturday’s group held an indication that learn “New England is ours, the remainder should go,” based on WBZ-TV, which first reported on the incident. In keeping with WBZ-TV, the group’s chants appeared to reference the arrival of migrants in Massachusetts. 

In video captured by a WBZ-TV photographer and shared to the social media platform X, the masked protesters might be heard shouting, “Whose streets? Our streets!” 

State police mentioned on-scene discipline personnel and the State Police Operations Watch Heart intently monitored the demonstration, which dispersed round 9:40 p.m. There have been no arrests. 

Healey spoke out in opposition to the demonstration in an announcement Monday, asserting, “These Neo-Nazis and white supremacists try to scare individuals from exercising their rights and standing as much as their hate.” 

“We gained’t tolerate it in Massachusetts,” the governor continued. “Native, state and federal legislation enforcement will maintain accountable perpetrators of violence and those that threaten violence and can hold our communities and residents protected.”