The people who turned out to hear Mr. McInnes speak at the Metropolitan Republican Club in October represented a cross-section of New York’s far-right subculture: libertarians, conspiracy theorists and nationalists who have coalesced around their opposition to Islam, feminism and liberal politics.
Irvin Antillon, 49, who is accused of kicking protesters on the ground, is a member of a Latino skinhead group, Batallón 49, who traveled to Charlottesville last year for the “Unite the Right” rally, where an anti-racist protester was killed, experts said.
In one online photograph, he poses shirtless, showing off tattoos of Nazi symbols.
Mr. Hare, 26, of Harrisburg, Pa., was filmed in early October punching leftist protesters at a “Resist Marxism” rally outside the statehouse in Providence, R.I., and traveled to another far-right rally in Portland, Ore., in August, where Vice News Tonight filmed him wearing what appeared to be a bulletproof vest.
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