“Hey, bitches!” one of the anti-racists shouted before charging Speers’ table. The gang filing in with baseball bats, police batons, hammers, and nunchucks were members of Anti-Racist Action (ARA) and the Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (HARM), two groups dedicated to violently confronting white supremacists. But Steven Speers, a stalactite-bearded 33-year-old who had just sat down for appetizers at a white nationalist meet and greet, had a hunch who they were. Others thought they might be playing a practical joke. Some diners mistook the mob for armed robbers. Subscribe to our print magazine.Īt lunchtime on May 19, 2012, 18 masked men and women shouldered through the front door of the Ashford House restaurant in Tinley Park, Illinois, a working-class suburb of Chicago. Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.
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