{"id":35044,"date":"2017-08-14T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T00:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=35044"},"modified":"2017-08-14T17:35:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T00:35:47","slug":"californian-who-helped-lead-charlottesville-protests-used-berkeley-as-a-test-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/californian-who-helped-lead-charlottesville-protests-used-berkeley-as-a-test-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Californian Who Helped Lead Charlottesville Protests Used Berkeley as a Test Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nathan Damigo, the founder of white nationalist group Identity Evropa, at a right-wing rally in Berkeley on April 15. Damigo helped organize the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where one white nationalist rammed his car into a group of counter demonstrators, killing a 32-year-woman and injuring 19 other people. Photo: Bert Johnson\/KQED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before white nationalists\u00a0protested in Charlottesville<\/a>\u00a0over the weekend, before a\u00a0man allegedly plowed a car<\/a>\u00a0into a group of people killing one and injuring at least 19, violent clashes in Berkeley offered a window into the motives and tactics of Identity Evropa, one of the white supremacist groups intimately involved in both protests.<\/p>\n

For leaders of this white nationalist movement, the April 15 \u201cBattle of Berkeley\u201d was a self-described test run to see just how far they could push the bounds of protesting, according to numerous\u00a0public statements<\/a>\u00a0from members of the white supremacist movement.<\/p>\n

Nathan Damigo is a founder of the California-based Identity Evropa,\u00a0profiled by El Tecolote newspaper<\/a>\u00a0in December. A former Marine infantryman and convicted felon who lives in Stanislaus County, Damigo is being credited with helping to lead\u00a0the Charlottesville protest, along with other white supremacists rallies around the country. Damigo has made these rallies a key driver for recruiting new members of the group.\u00a0He did not respond to requests for comment on Saturday about his involvement in the Charlottesville event following his arrest there.<\/p>\n

Damigo, 31, said his group is engaged in peaceful, First-Amendment protected protests. But before Charlottesville, Damigo was probably best known for punching a 19-year-old woman in the face in Berkeley. That moment was\u00a0captured on video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the video, Damigo \u2014 sporting a hipster haircut, collared shirt and clenched fists \u2014 runs up to a young, dreadlocked woman holding a camera and punches her.<\/p>\n

Over the course of multiple, hour-long interviews over several months Damigo told KQED he punched the woman because she was a threat; because she was going to attack his friends; because she was a member of Antifa, a leftist confederation of socialists and anarchists \u2013 some of whom have committed acts of violence and arson.<\/p>\n

Essentially, Damigo said he punched her because he had to.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe joined this organization and came with her local gang from Southern California, according to statements that she made on social media, to disrupt the events and to acquire scalps,\u201d he said. \u201cFurthermore, she was swinging around bottles, which is a deadly weapon, a foot long wine bottle at people.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what KQED witnessed at the scene of the attack, however.<\/p>\n

What began with Damigo shouting provocative calls into a megaphone quickly turned into an all out street brawl. Damigo was screaming \u201chold the line,\u201d \u201cguard the flank\u201d and \u201cadvance!\u201d<\/p>\n

Damigo violently moved through the crowd. Smoke bombs and flash grenades and glass bottles were thrown. Thick tear gas filled the air. Leftist protesters, many of them aging men, were beat up. Police were hit with firecrackers. At one point, Antifa (wearing black hoodies and masks) and the far right (wearing red hats, flag capes, and paramilitary armor) fought over who could control a dumpster that was pushed down the street.<\/p>\n

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A fight breaks out over control of a dumpster after alt-right demonstrators clashed against counter protesters in Berkeley on April 15. Photo: John Sepulvado\/KQED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Damigo found himself outside of the roaring street brawl he helped create. Alone for a moment, he stopped in the middle of the street. Then, Damigo ran across the street, right up to the woman, and hit her. After she fell, Damigo turned, smiled and jumped back into the rolling scuffles.<\/p>\n

Damigo\u2019s involvement in the \u201cBattle of Berkeley\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is an important moment for the white supremacist movement because it attracted supporters from around the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cA large amount of the violence that has occurred may be due to the inroads we are making,\u201d Damigo told an interviewer after the Berkeley events.<\/p>\n

This frenetic, violent, yet charismatic man with extreme racist views helped organize the Charlottesville rally. And he\u2019s helping to mobilize an entire generation of white supremacists.<\/p>\n

From Suburban California Kid to Imprisoned Felon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nathan Damigo was born in Lewiston, Maine. In a long conversation with KQED, he noted with irony that the community had accepted early groups of resettled refugees.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t call them refugees,\u201d Damigo said. \u201cIt was one of the first places they started doing the Somali immigration relocation thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, his mother moved the family to San Jose. In the South Bay, Damigo traced the beginning of his \u201crace realist\u201d awakening to feeling out of place in a multiracial city. He said he would feel uncomfortable in situations where he was the only white person.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019d go over to a friend\u2019s house, or something like that and everybody\u2019s speaking a different language,\u201d Damigo said, \u201cand you\u2019re just sitting there awkwardly. There\u2019s no connection there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nathan Damigo speaks to KQED on April 27, about tracing the beginning of his \u201crace realist\u201d beliefs to his upbringing in the diverse city of San Jose, CA. Photo: Bert Johnson\/KQED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Damigo went to Liberty Baptist School in San Jose through his senior year. His mother worked as a teacher there. Like so many other California kids of his age, he listened to bands like Metallica and Soundgarden, watched \u201cTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,\u201d and dreamed of being a pro skater.<\/p>\n

Yet, as he aged, those dreams morphed into aspirations of a military career \u2014 his father had served in the Marine Corps. Damigo said his desire to serve became more pronounced after the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pretty much watched live as the second tower was hit,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was a pretty big thing to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Damigo also credited his socially conservative family, who he said raised him to have pride in the country, for influencing his decision to enlist.<\/p>\n

He would serve two deployments in Iraq in the infantry. It was on these tours that Damigo\u2019s views on race began to be shaped by the violent conflict he saw on a daily basis \u2014 killings, murders, explosions and misery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw them in Iraq, which is also a multi-religious, multicultural society,\u201d Damigo said. \u201cAnd I generally saw it growing up. And it was certainly a more extreme form, but it definitely, I think it did make me think a bit more about race and population dynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The violence that began to shape Damigo\u2019s thinking on race also killed two of his close friends in combat. According to court documents that KQED obtained from El Tecolote, Damigo began suffering acute symptoms of PTSD as a result of his exposure to the Iraq War.<\/p>\n

Damigo blames that trauma for his decision to rob a San Diego cab driver at gunpoint after his return from Iraq.<\/p>\n

During a psychological evaluation conducted for the court as part of\u00a0the criminal case, Damigo said\u00a0he attacked the cab driver, Changiz Ezzatyar, because he mistook him for an Iraqi. Damigo said the decision came after a night of solitary, heavy drinking.<\/p>\n

Psychologist Heidi Kraft conducted another evaluation of Damigo after the assault. In her clinical notes, which were included in court documents from his trial, she wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there is no evidence that the patient experienced psychiatric dissociation during the robbery, his PTSD symptoms were so disabling, and his use of alcohol to self-medicate was so heavy, it appears that the combination of these factors led to a serious and uncharacteristic breakdown in both insight and judgment the night of his arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kraft added that some PTSD patients engage in thrill-seeking behavior.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on this Marine\u2019s history, which is free of any behavior even remotely similar to the night of his arrest, it is likely that he may have become one of those patients,\u201d Kraft concluded.<\/p>\n

His family strongly defended Damigo during the court hearing, and his story was featured on the HBO documentary,\u00a0Wartorn<\/a>, as part of a broader series on post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like being dropped in a nightmare,\u201d his mother, Charilyn Damigo, told HBO.<\/p>\n

Damigo\u2019s mother and others wrote letters to the court, urging leniency and understanding from the judge. But worried that a defense centered on PTSD would fail, Damigo accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to six years in prison.<\/p>\n

It was during that time that he started reading the words of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who remains a white supremacist leader and was at the Charlottesville event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI became disillusioned, after the Iraq War, with mainstream narratives,\u201d Damigo said. \u201cMost of [Duke\u2019s] arguments I just couldn\u2019t debunk, no matter how hard I tried.\u201d<\/p>\n

College Students Seen as the Key to a Separate, White Homeland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Damigo\u2019s white supremacist group \u2014 Identity Evropa \u2014 is based in California but has chapters on college campuses throughout the country. The group has a high visibility on campuses from San Diego to Tuscaloosa to Charlottesville. On these campuses are fliers, banners, posters and bathroom graffiti advertising Identity Evropa videos.<\/p>\n

Damigo\u2019s views on race and nationalism may have been shaped by the four years in prison, but in many ways they are clear echoes of older white supremacists such as Duke. In an interview with KQED, Damigo said he believes white people need their own, separate country.<\/p>\n

But, he added that he also wants his organization to be seen as more acceptable to a broader population. For example, Damigo has banned members of Identity Evropa from having tattoos on their faces, necks or hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be seen as overly threatening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Damigo also doesn\u2019t swear, instead using words like \u201cgosh\u201d or \u201cgolly\u201d in the place of expletives. And as other racists have argued for forceful relocation or purging of minority groups from American society, Damigo avoided talking about how he would create a white-only homeland.<\/p>\n

But he doesn\u2019t avoid conflict. Instead \u2014 as they did in Berkeley and Charlottesville \u2014 Identity Evropa and aligned white supremacist groups seem to revel in goading counter-protesters into violent clashes.<\/p>\n

Damigo also indicated that at this stage, he\u2019s more interested in recruiting members and building a durable movement than hammering out specific policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, this is the stuff that will likely never happen in my lifetime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

To that end, Damigo said he is targeting college-educated white males as potential new members of Identity Evropa. That\u2019s a big reason these rallies have been largely organized on college campuses.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not just protests, they\u2019re recruitment drives.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversities are institutions where the cognitive elite of the youth tend to bottleneck,\u201d Damigo said. \u201cThey are going to be the ones who are going to be most likely to bring about change, long-term institutional change.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a strategy shared by Damigo\u2019s friend, Richard Spencer,\u00a0one of the most outspoken and visible members of the white supremacist movement<\/a>. Spencer heads\u00a0the National Policy Institute, a white supremacy group.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor better or for worse, I am not trying to reach each and every person who goes to a Trump rally,\u201d Spencer told KQED prior to this weekend\u2019s violence. \u201cThere are certainly more populist versions of the alt-right. I think it\u2019s abundantly clear that I\u2019m going after an elite.\u201d<\/p>\n

This approach appears to be working for Identity Evropa, which has recruited more than 500\u00a0members at colleges across the country, according to Damigo. KQED could not independently verify that claim.<\/p>\n

But Brian Levin \u2014 a noted hate-group researcher and professor at CSU San Bernardino\u2019s Department of Criminal Justice \u2014 said he does not believe those numbers are accurate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t believe any membership claims by Damigo,\u201d Levin said. \u201cDamigo is trying to not just be the opening act in the white supremacy movement. The membership of his group is far smaller.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, several prominent social scientists who have begun studying the rise of hard-right said they, too, are seeing a significant uptick of participation in racist groups.<\/p>\n

One of those researchers is Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who wrote the book \u201ciGen.\u201d She said her research shows that a minority of people younger than 24 hold racist beliefs, but there has been an increase in those numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at whether white people thought black people are lazy and unintelligent, and there was an uptick in the youngest respondents,\u201d Twenge said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re showing a lot of prejudice, really,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Twenge is unsure why this trend is happening. But she said anecdotally, there appears to be evidence that white nationalism is taking root among young men.<\/p>\n

Berkeley sociologist Arlie Hochschild agreed. During her research for the book \u201cStrangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right,\u201d she ran across a hardening of views among young men, specifically about blacks and Muslims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a great anger, especially with regards to groups like Black Lives Matter or American-Islamic groups,\u201d Hochschild said. \u201cThere is a deep-rooted belief that in the past eight years, those groups have somehow cut to the front of the line, that their needs are being placed ahead of whites, especially white men.\u201d<\/p>\n

That anger \u2014 that somehow white history and status in society is being displaced by minority groups and women \u2014 was a driving force and rallying cry among white supremacists in Charlottesville, who marched with tiki torches lit to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue. The event to celebrate confederate and white heritage was organized locally by Jason Kessler, a local white nationalist.<\/p>\n

According to Richard Spencer, who spoke to KQED a few weeks before the violence and deaths in Charlottesville, Damigo and his group took the lead to organize white supremacist participation among people from outside Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to take credit for it, but it was more Nathan,\u201d Spencer said.<\/p>\n

But the outcome in Charlottesville is markedly different than it was in the Berkeley rally. Three people have died, including 32-year-old Heather Heyer, allegedly run over by an apparent white supremacist. Two Virginia State Police officers \u2014 Pilot Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates \u2014 died a few hours after when their patrol helicopter crashed en route to the scene of the violence.<\/p>\n

Damigo was arrested in Virginia for failing to disperse. He\u2019s set up an online fundraiser for his legal costs related to what he describes as civil rights violations in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

Prior to his arrest, Damigo said he was looking forward to more campus events. He told KQED one of his plans is to set up an event at UC Berkeley with Richard Spencer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more these people kick and scream and whine and cry, the more publicity we get,\u201d Damigo said. \u201cPublicity is a good thing. From a PR perspective we want people to talk about us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: El Tecolote\u2019s Alexis Terrazas contributed to this story, which is presented in partnership with the San Francisco newspaper.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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