"Minadeo, who grew up in Marin and Sonoma counties, has spent years promoting antisemitic propaganda through the Goyim Defense League a loose network the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as one of the country's most prolific distributors of hate literature. He was previously arrested in Poland for demonstrating outside the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, sentenced to 30 days in a Florida jail on a littering charge after throwing antisemitic flyers onto people's properties, and was banned from Bibb County, Georgia, after a disturbance at a synagogue."
"Authorities in California have said they generally lack legal grounds to prosecute Minadeo for his hate speech activities, which are largely protected under the First Amendment. The law center's suit, filed in mid-June in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, may be the strongest challenge yet to the online and in-person operations Minadeo has built to spread antisemitic and racist messages."
Jon Minadeo II resurfaced in Petaluma after several years living out of state and faces a federal lawsuit accusing him and associates of violent hate crimes. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Minadeo, the Goyim Defense League and five others on behalf of Deago Buck, who says he was assaulted during a multi-day neo-Nazi rally in downtown Nashville in July 2024. Minadeo promoted antisemitic propaganda through the Goyim Defense League and has prior arrests and bans for demonstrations and flyering. California authorities say First Amendment protections generally limit prosecution. The SPLC suit, filed in mid-June in federal court in Tennessee, seeks to hold Minadeo and associates accountable and curtail their flyering and online platforms. Minadeo's lawyer disputes the allegations and contends the plaintiff was the aggressor.
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