The city hall of one North Texas town provided the backdrop Saturday for a gathering of a neo-Nazi group.
The National Socialist Movement (NSM), a prominent neo-Nazi and white supremacist organization, held a planned rally Saturday in Prosper, a city about 35 miles north of Dallas. Video captured by independent journalist Ford Fischer showed police monitoring the rally. Roughly 10 members of the group gathered, the video showed, and three apparent counter-protesters approached the event after 1 p.m. and delivered a cooler to the NSM. The counter-protesters were asked to leave the area by police.
It’s unclear what was in the delivered cooler, per Fischer. The Prosper Police Department directed Chron’s inquiry about the rally to an office that wasn’t available as of Sunday afternoon.
A website promoting the rally detailed that it was meant to protest the sentencing of Karmelo Anthony, a local high school student who fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf, a fellow student, at a track meet in Frisco in 2025.
The NSM claim Anthony’s 35-year prison sentence is insufficient. NSM leader Burt Colucci also spent Saturday’s rally delivering anti-Semitic remarks about Jewish people, and he added he “hate[s] these Arabs.” Attendees at the rally worse arm-bands with swastikas, and one man spoke while dressed as Hitler.
The gathering ended Saturday afternoon without arrests or altercations.
The NSM was founded in 1975 and is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A livestream for the event was held online Saturday, with a donation link available via Bitcoin. Four total donors raised $195 as of Sunday, well short of the fundraiser’s $1,000 goal.
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This article originally published at Neo-Nazi group gathers in Texas to protest Karmelo Anthony sentencing.