Orangevale man named as alleged white power leader called a 'danger to community'
The shadowy online white supremacist leader who is alleged to be a 27-year-old Orangevale man is one of the most violent extremists in the movement today, but his unmasking may result in his followers fleeing his influence, a researcher into American hate movements says.
Andrew Richard Casarez, who allegedly posted online for years as the Vic Mackey, the leader of a Dylann Roof-worshipping group known as the Bowl Patrol, is under investigation by the Sacramento County Sheriffs Office for alleged hate crimes and earlier this month had a 9 mm firearm seized by detectives who obtained an emergency restraining order.
But public reports of his identity first by the website Anonymous Comrades Collective on July 7 and then by the Huffington Post a week ago may scare off followers of the Bowl Patrol, said Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Bowl Patrol is a group that posted podcasts advocating violence with about 1,000 online followers that is named for the distinctive haircut Roof sported when he killed nine Black people at a Charleston, South Carolina, prayer meeting in 2015, Miller said in a telephone interview Wednesday.
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