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Thu Oct 13, 2022, 07:37 PM Oct 2022

He Marched At The Nazi Rally In Charlottesville. Then He Went Back To Being A Cop.

Johnny Donnelly marched at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Then he went back to being a cop in Massachusetts. (Photo: Illustration: HuffPost)

A Massachusetts police officer attended the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, five years ago and acted in key security and planning roles, HuffPost has confirmed. He also used an alias to post racist and antisemitic comments online. The officer, John Donnelly, was still an active-duty member of the police force until Thursday, shortly after HuffPost inquired about his status with the department and role in the deadly white supremacist rally.

Donnelly, 33, was a patrolman for the Woburn Police Department near Boston, where he has been employed since 2015.

But on the morning of Aug. 12, 2017, Donnelly could be seen on video arriving at the Charlottesville rally with Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist for whom Donnelly was apparently acting as a security guard. Spencer, Donnelly and a coterie of other suit-and-tie fascists worked their way into a city park where they held court beneath a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, posing for photos and talking into livestreams.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marched-nazi-rally-charlottesville-then-211807571.html

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