Last Saturday in Highland Park, a man walked into a local shop with white power tattoos and a t-shirt for “Aggravated Assault,” a 1990s white power band notorious for racist lyrics and violent skinhead fans.
A witness said the man told the staff that he was waiting for his girlfriend. He bought a beer and left, returned, lingered, and then left again.
The next day, a woman entered the same shop, bought a pack of Marlboros and when the employee handed her change, he noticed “White Power” tattooed across her chest in cryptic gothic script, along with SS lightning bolts and a rune on her neck.
These sightings in Highland Park connect to a pattern of hate group activity spiking in and around L.A.