Armed Drag Brunch Defenders Shield Against Far-Right in Texas
A group of people armed with AR-15 style assault rifles stood guard outside a Texas drag queen brunch location Sunday to defend people enjoying the show from armed right-wing extremists bent on disrupting it.
Eventually, the two sides clashed, and a local journalist caught it on video.A video showing some of the heated exchanges that ensued went viral on Twitter.
Dallas-area freelance investigative journalist Steven Monacelli posted a thread to his Twitter timeline, where he documented the day’s events.Monacelli also captured this terrifying image of a right-wing extremist menacing the assembled crowd by intimidating them with a baseball bat wrapped in razor wire.
Kelly Neidert, a known transphobe, was spotted in the distance as one of the people responsible for the event, according to Monacelli.A far-right activist at the University of North Texas Denton campus, Neidert founded Protect Texas Kids in April, which emerged from her transphobic activities.
