"Masked neo-nazis rally outside danbury police hq, officials condemn hate
About a dozen masked demonstrators gathered outside Danbury Police Department headquarters at 375 Main St. on Saturday night, chanting 'white power' and 'whose streets? our streets' while giving Nazi-style salutes and holding a banner that read 'Keep New England White.' Danbury Police Chief Patrick Ridenhour confirmed the footage, which circulated on Reddit and Facebook, showing the masked group outside the building.
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The demonstration was directly provoked by the Danbury City Council's early September vote, 18–2, to allow lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients to apply for municipal police officer positions, per Hearst Connecticut Media. The decision aligned Danbury with state guidance while drawing opposition from two Republican council members, the outlet noted. It built on a 2020 partial waiver of Connecticut's citizenship requirement for police applicants and a March 2025 expansion to DACA recipients under General Notice 25-05 from the state's Police Officer Standards and Training Council.
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A group calling itself Northeast Action claimed responsibility for the demonstration in a Telegram post, according to Patch. Extremism researchers at the Counter Extremism Project identify Northeast Action as a neo-Nazi group closely linked to Nationalist Social Club 131, or NSC-131, a far-right network established in Massachusetts in 2019 that routinely uses unannounced flash rallies and Telegram channels to target diverse New England communities. These groups exploit local policy changes and flashpoints by staging rapid, masked demonstrations on public sidewalks to generate social media content while avoiding police confrontation or arrests, per the same Hearst Connecticut Media report."
