The Muscatine Police Department (MPD) has arrested a person for the acts of vandalism last weekend that included spraypainting swastikas on Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant and Jibaro, a restaurant specializing in authentic Puerto Rican cuisine. In addition to swastikas, Jibaro was also defaced with the spraypainted message, “We don’t want you here.” In its statement on […]
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Vandals deface two Muscatine restaurants with swastikas; owners stand firm: ‘We do not know fear’
Buildings in Muscatine were vandalized on Sunday, with swastikas spray-painted onto their exterior walls, according to the Muscatine Police Department (MPD). Two restaurants — Jibaro, which specializes in authentic Puerto Rican cuisine, and Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant — were targeted by the vandals. In addition to defacing both buildings with swastikas, the vandals also wrote “We […]
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Racist flyers from neo-Nazi group distributed in Waterloo
Editor’s note: This article discusses extreme racist and antisemitic sentiments. Some Waterloo residents woke up on Sunday morning to find flyers from a neo-Nazi group on their lawns or doorsteps. The one-page flyers, packaged from the Texas-based Aryan Freedom Network, were placed in zip-lock plastic sandwich bags. The flyers call for people to join the […]
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Neo-Nazi group distributes racist propaganda to homes on Iowa City’s Northside
Racist propaganda from a neo-Nazi group was distributed on Iowa City’s Northside on Tuesday, a resident reported on Reddit. “Came home to find a 2019 edition of LV with this sticker on it in my driveway,” a poster on the Iowa City subreddit wrote on Tuesday night. “Found another in a driveway about a block […]
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Vandals spray-paint racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in Marion
A four-block stretch of 10th Street in Marion was vandalized with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas, during the early hours of Thursday morning. “At least one vehicle was spray-painted, as were city streets, city sidewalks, light posts, and some businesses and homes between the 700 block and the 1100 block of 10th Street right […]
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‘Extremely offensive’: Neo-Nazi group distributes propaganda in Davenport again
White supremacist propaganda is being tossed onto people’s front lawns in Davenport again, a Davenport resident told Little Village on Monday. And once again, the propaganda from the neo-Nazi National Alliance is in the former of large sticker that are wrapped around old copies of Little Village, placed in clear plastic bags and thrown onto […]
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Neo-Nazi group distributes propaganda in eastern Iowa again
White supremacist propaganda from the neo-Nazi National Alliance has been showing up on driveways in Davenport. A flyer from the group has been tucked into a magazine that is rolled up, placed in a clear plastic bag and then tossed onto driveways and lawns. Unfortunately, the hate group is using old copies of Little Village […]
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White supremacist graffiti spray-painted in City Park
Visitors to City Park on Saturday morning may have encountered an unpleasant surprise on the pavement: white supremacist messages written with black spray paint in three different areas. “We’ve had spray-painting before, but never messages like this,” Collin Lenton of the Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department said as he was scrubbing graffiti off one […]
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White supremacist propaganda disguised as a health warning distributed in Coralville
Some Coralville residents found flyers with white supremacist messages thrown onto their lawns and driveways on Wednesday. The adhesive-backed flyers from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, were wrapped around copies of the Muscatine Parks & Recreation newsletter. Muscatine Parks & Rec, of course, has nothing to do with the National Alliance, but in addition […]
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White supremacist banner hung in North Liberty on Juneteenth
Early Friday morning, supporters of a white supremacist group hung a banner on an I-380 overpass in North Liberty. “The sign was in this area along I-380 near Forevergreen Road. Drivers came across it before 6 a.m. Friday morning and police quickly took it down,” KCRG reported. The banner said “Reclaim America,” and “Patriot Front […]
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White supremacist propaganda disguised as COVID-19 warning distributed in eastern Iowa
White supremacist propaganda disguised as a health warning about COVID-19 is being distributed in eastern Iowa. Residents in Iowa City, North Liberty, Cedar Rapids and Davenport have recently reported finding messages from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, tossed onto their lawns. Stickers labelled “National Alliance health warning #3” have been stuck onto rolled-up copies […]
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White supremacist fliers distributed in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids
Some residents of Iowa City and Cedar Rapids woke up on Monday to find adhesive-backed fliers from a white supremacist group on their lawns and driveways. The anti-immigrant messages found on both the westside of Iowa City and in southwest Cedar Rapids were wrapped around rolled-up old copies of Little Village magazine. The fliers, which […]
