Skinhead violence surging, watchdog group says

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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) -- Violence by skinhead gangs in the United States is on the rise because of splits in the extreme right movement, a U.S. watchdog group said Friday. The Hammerskin Nation gang has long dominated the skinhead scene, but in the last two years other gangs like the Outlaw Hammerskins and the Vinlander Social Club have rebelled against them, said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. "When these small groups are trying to prove themselves you see an upsurge in extreme violence," said Potok who estimated that tens of thousands of people belonged to U.S. skinhead gangs. "The remarkable thing of this rebellion is that it is a rebellion of the ultraviolent against the extremely violent," said Potok. The gangs consist mainly of young white men and some women who are bonded around music, racist ideology and violence, according to the center, which is based in Montgomery, Alabama, and has tracked far-right groups for decades. READ MORE..

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