Beltway Area Indymedia

Earlier this week, members of Resistance and Solidarity conducted a preliminary reconnaissance trip to the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Dulles Airport in preparation for the demonstrations against the American Renaissance Conference.

February 22-24, the American Renaissance Magazine will hold their biannual white supremacist conference in Herndon, VA.

As of Thursday, July 12, a DC grand jury has yet to return an indictment for the armed anti-immigrant member of the Herndon Minutemen, Tyler Froatz.

I had the pleasure, and displeasure, yesterday of attending the hearing at which the Prince William County (Virginia) Board of Supervisors passed one of the most draconian, anti-immigrant pieces of legislation on the books to date in the United States. The pleasure lay in seeing people stand up for their humanity, and what is right. The displeasure lay in seeing the anti-immigrant sentiment, whipped up by the powerful elite, exert its influence on the Board of Supervisors.

Today, Wednesday, June 20, the heavily armed, anti-immigrant member of the Herndon Minutemen, Tyler Froatz Jr. was ordered to be released into the custody of his parents, Tyler and Jeanne Froatz (of Wayne, NJ), by DC Superior Court Judge James Boasberg. Mr. Froatz had previously been ordered to be held in the DC Jail, pending today's hearing, after being arrested at an immigrant rights rally on May 1st for assault, and for carrying a dangerous weapon (weapons found on Mr. Froatz that day included a stun gun, a claw hammer, a molotov cocktail, and a (converted) fully automatic M1 carbine rifle).

On the heels of the recent May Day immigrants' rights march, and the arrest and detention of Herndon Minuteman Tyler Froatz (5320 8th St. NW, Apt. 107 Washington DC 20011) for assaulting and threatening to shoot immigrants, anti-immigrant racists are returning to Washington, DC. The Minutemen, Save our State, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and other anti-immigrant racist organizations from around the country will be coming to DC this Thursday to take part in Let Freedom Ring's (http://www.lframerica.com/march2.html) “March for America: Take America Back.” From June 14-16, hundreds of xenophobes are expected to descend on DC to lobby congress, demand massive deportations of immigrants and the construction of a “wall” along the U.S.-Mexican border.

On the heels of the recent immigrants' rights march, and the arrest and detention of Herndon Minuteman Tyler Froatz (5320 8th St. NW, Apt. 107 Washington DC 20011) for assaulting and threatening immigrants, anti-immigrant racists are returning to Washington, DC. Minutemen and other anti-immigrant racist organizations from around the country will be coming to DC for 3 days in June to take part in Let Freedom Ring's (http://www.lframerica.com/march2.html) “March for America: Take America Back.” From June 14-16, hundreds of xenophobes are expected to descend on DC.

Today, Thursday, May 17, in DC Superior Court, at 500 Indiana Avenue NW, Judge James Boasberg denied Tyler Froatz Jr.'s request to be released pending trial.

Demonstrators appeared outside of the courthouse to denounce Mr. Froatz and the racist ideology of the Minuteman Project. With signs and fliers, they informed passers by of the details of Mr. Froatz's case, and information about the anti-immigrant Minuteman Project. Many observers indicated their disgust for the racist ideology of the Minuteman Project, and for the threatening actions of Mr. Froatz.

Mr. Froatz, a member of the Herndon Minutemen, was arrested after assaulting, both verbally and physically, attendees of an immigrants' rights rally in Malcolm X Park on May 1. Mr. Froatz was found to have numerous weapons on his person, as well as in his vehicle, along with anti-immigrant literature. After his arrest, police seized numerous weapons from his 8th St. NW Apartment, at 5320 8th St. NW, Apt. 107, including nearly a dozen unregistered rifles, a grenade launcher, and several other weapons.

Tyler Froatz Jr., the heavily armed member of the Herndon Minutemen arrested after assaulting individuals at last week's immigrant rights' rally in Malcolm X Park was rightly denied bond by a DC Superior Court judge on Friday, May 4. Froatz came to the May Day rally, armed with a stun gun, a 12 inch knife, a claw hammer, and a flare gun on his person. After assaulting an organizer of the rally, and insulting many of those present, Froatz returned to his car, containing a loaded rifle, binoculars, literature about killing immigrants, and maps of the park where the rally was taking place. Upon returning to the rally in camouflage, he was arrested by the US Park Police. After his arrest, numerous weapons were found in Froat'z NW apartment, at 5320 8th St NW, Apt. 107. Judge James Boasberg cited Froatz's large number of illegal weapons and his 'looking for trouble' at the immigrants rights' rally as reasons for holding him without bond.

A man arrested for assaulting immigrants' rights demonstrators is said to be due in DC Superior Court, located at 500 Indiana Avenue NW (Judiciary Square Metro) on Friday. The man, identified as Tyler J. Froatz, Jr., was identified in a Washington Times article last year as a member of the Herndon Minutemen, the Herndon chapter of the notorious, racist group, the Minuteman Project.

That man with the flare gun and machete that was arrested near the Mayday immigration rally has been identifed by NBC-TV4 as Tyler J. Froatz Jr., age 24. His home, an apartment unit in 5308 8th st NW was stormed by police-who recovered many rifles, several bows, many swords, and what was earlier decribed as a "grenade", now as a replica grenade along with a replica grenade launcher.