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Angry knots of buzz-cut skinheads and helmeted police circled each other warily in the halls of Oregon's Multnomah County courthouse last week. Close by, in a marble-pillared courtroom hidden behind security gates, two men stood before a civil court judge and began a legal duel that involved...
In taking aim at Metzger, 52, and his son John, 22, Dees is trying to cripple an admitted "racial separatist" and leader of a neo-Nazi movement known as the White Aryan Resistance (WAR). Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, was using an unusual weapon: the...
In Portland, Dees and colleague Elden Rosenthal are asking a $10 million punitive judgment against WAR and the Metzgers. A member of WAR's Portland affiliate, East Side White Pride, was convicted last year of murder in the 1988 beating death of Mulugeta Seraw, a 27-year-old Ethiopian man...
The link between the Metzgers and the Portland murder, Dees alleges, was WAR national vice president David Mazzella, 20. The senior Metzger sent Mazzella to Portland in September 1988, the civil rights advocate charges, to organize East Side White Pride into a more militant street-fighting group. Dees' evidence includes...
Seraw, who worked as an Avis airport shuttle-bus driver, lived near an apartment where the White Pride group were drinking one night, and was attacked with two friends while returning from a party. A skinhead named Kenneth Mieske came up behind Seraw with a baseball bat and struck his...