5 White Nationalist Group Members Convicted in Plans to Riot at Pride Event
Five members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front were convicted on Thursday of conspiracy to riot at a local pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, last year, court officials said.
After about an hour of deliberation, a jury in Kootenai County District Court found Devon Center, 24, of Arkansas; James Johnson, 37, of Washington; Forrest Rankin, 29, of Texas; Derek Smith, 25, of South Dakota; and Robert Whitted, 23, of Texas; guilty of conspiring to riot, a misdemeanor, said Pete Barnes, the jury commissioner for Kootenai County.
Judge James D. Stow sentenced each of the men to five days in jail with two of the days credited, and one year of unsupervised probation, according to court documents.
The judge also fined the men $1,000 each and barred them from being within two miles of Coeur d’Alene City Park, where the pride event was held on June 11, 2022.
