White nationalist undeterred by boos on latest college stop

 

October 20, 2017



BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The hostile audience drowned out white nationalist Richard Spencer with anti-Nazi chants. They booed him off the stage under the watchful eye of police officers in riot gear.

In other words, Spencer sees his speech Thursday at the University of Florida as a smashing success.

"I'm very happy with what happened in the sense of the (public relations) victory," he told The Associated Press on Friday. "But at the same time, it's a little frustrating and a little sad that I wasn't able to talk to people."

Once an obscure figure in a fringe movement, Spencer has become a house...



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