Melee in Morristown

At a recent anti-immigration rally in Morristown, NJ a scuffle ensued between some antifa and a mated pair of stormfront boneheads.

Annette & Frederick K. “Erick_K_W (on Stormfront)” Williams of North Bergen Belividere, NJ

NYC Indymedia & One People’s Project have some more coverage and photos.

July 29, 2007

Wherever neo-Nazis go, injustice follows. Morristown on Saturday was no
different.

After the July 28, 2007 anti-immigrant rally in Morristown, NJ, two
neo-Nazis attacked antifascists behind town hall. The neo-Nazis, 40-year
old Frederick K. Williams (“Erick_K_W” on Stormfront) and Annette
Williams of North Bergen Belvidere, NJ, jumped from their pick-up truck armed with
baseball bats and knives and assaulted pro-immigrant counter-protesters.

After taunting the anti-racist activists who had outed them earlier at
the rally itself, Williams and his wife stopped their truck, exited the
vehicle and pulled a knife on the activists. He lunged at them but was
quickly disarmed and his knife fell to the pavement. A local resident
saw the fight between the older couple and the younger activists and
joined in to support the neo-Nazis, shouting obscenities and dragging
one activist who had just been standing there to the ground. Williams
then pulled out a baseball bat from the rear bed of his pick up truck
and began attacking the anti-racists with it.

By this point, more antifas began rushing to the scene. Williams got
back in his truck and tried to flee, but not before other activists
blocked his Ford pick up from leaving. Moments later, police rushed in,
found Williams’ weapon in the back of his pickup and confiscated it.

Staying true to their fear of authority figures, the Williams’ story
quickly changed, telling police they were the victims of an unprovoked
assault, but other witnesses at the scene and a video of the attack
prove otherwise.

After initially handcuffing the bat-wielding Frederick Williams and
detaining his wife Annette, police then decided to take his word for it
and rounded up several anti-racists who were detained several blocks
away from the incident.

Although they had the bat, the knife and other evidence of the actual
assault right in their hands, no action was taken by police against
Frederick Williams. They then let Williams choose which activists he
wanted to be arrested.

Frederick Williams suffered no more than a few scrapes and bruised ego,
and his wife Annette a bloody lip, while one of those arrested was
beaten with a baseball bat and sustained injuries to his knee and leg.
Again: the neo-Nazis were not arrested or charged by the police.

The New York Times erroneously printed an article using the police
report, based entirely on Williams’ story of the event in direct
contradiction to the statements of other witnesses and the evidence
found on the scene. Where police reported ten activists targeted in the
assault, less than four were involved, and no mention was made in the
article of Williams’ possession of the weapons.

The charges against the activists reflected this: one was charged with
two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon, yet fingerprint analysis
will clearly show that the items were wielded by none other than
Frederick Williams. Other charges include simple assault, disorderly
conduct, improper behavior and causing bodily injury. Bails were set
ridiculously high, one with a $5,000 bail with 10% bond, and two of
$2500 cash bail without bond – all for non-indictable offenses (NJ’s
equivalent of a misdemeanor).

Police themselves obstructed the release of the activists, first saying
that they would be released without charges, then that they would have
charges but be released on their own recognizance, then informing the
arrestees’ supporters of the bail amounts eight hours after the initial
arrests – while not stating any of the charges against them.

All of the activists were bailed out within three hours of being
transferred to the Morris County Jail through the efforts of devoted
friends and the support of a strong, dedicated, broad-based and growing
movement committed to standing up in the face of racist attacks,
harassment and lies. Their spirits are high and they are confident that
they will win in court.

The organizers of the anti-immigrant rally, including Mt. Olive blogger
Robb Pearson and the mayor of Morristown, Donald Cresitello, publicly
distanced themselves from charges of racism but seemed to have no
problem with the two dozen or so openly neo-Nazi rally participants at
the event, including Williams. Mayor Cresitello at one point even
stopped his prepared speech to launch a tirade against “Communists and
Marxists.”

Throughout the rally, anti-racists made their presence known in sight
and sound of the racist rally, calling out and exposing the neo-Nazis
present. At one point during the day, after anti-racists identified and
called out several neo-Nazi boneheads in the crowd near town hall, the
boneheads walked over to confront the protesters only to be swarmed. A
tense but non-violent face off ended with the boneheads realizing they
were out of their league. One ran into the local Kings’ supermarket to
hide, while others made a hasty retreat to their car, and drove off.

Perhaps to make up for his less-than-glorious battle for the purity of
the white race, Williams began posting to white supremacist website
Stormfront begging for money and support from other white supremacists,
claiming that antifas dragged him and his wife from his truck and
seriously injured them. Nothing could be further from the truth, a
pathetic cover-up by a neo-Nazi who picked the wrong day to try and
start his own racial holy war on the streets of Morristown.

But now, the neo-Nazis have gone even further, sending anonymous threats
to activists and college students who were not even at the counter-rally
and had only reposted already public calls to action. They have even
begun targeting family members of the arrestees. Several of these
anonymous threats have already been received from anonymous email
addresses. One ready: “This time you went too far, slut. Payback is
indeed a bitch.”

Neo-Nazis have also begun posting photos of other activists online and
calling – not for them to be outed to the public, as anti-racists have
done for Nazis – but to be singled out for assault and perhaps worse.

This only shows exactly what follows when neo-Nazis are allowed to take
the streets or organize unopposed: brutal and cowardly assaults on
unarmed protesters who stand up to their hate.

The neo-Nazis’ actions, their organizing, and their rallies will
continue to be disrupted and shut down in the months to come.

There is already a treasure trove of information on specific and active
white power organizers, including the participants of Saturday’s
assault, and any move or further assault by them will lead us right back
to the source. They will be exposed, they will lose their jobs, and they
may face years behind bars like white supremacist Matt Hale, former head
of the World Church of the Creator, if any harm comes to the activists,
their friends or loved ones. Neo-Nazis will not be allowed to take one
step in their communities and towns without being vilified, exposed to
the light and put in their place at every turn.

After shutting down the World Church of the Creator, after forcing the
National Alliance off the streets, after countering the National
Socialist Movement at every turn and exposing every tiny white power
faction trying to mainstream itself for what they are, they will not
pass. Further organizing by neo-Nazis in the mainstream will only bring
down the movements they try to infiltrate, ruining the careers of any
public figure or politician who flirts with fascism. Further organizing
out of the closet as white power organizations will be dealt a swift
defeat.

Never again means never again.

If you can help with the legal defense in anyway, or help with
information on finding info on who are issuing these threats, please
contact: morristownantifa (at) riseup.net.