LOS ANGELES (AP) — The chief of a Southern California white supremacist group was sentenced Friday to 2 years in federal jail for inciting violence at California political rallies in 2017.
Robert Paul Rundo, 34, pleaded responsible in September to at least one depend of conspiracy to violate the federal Anti-Riot Act, the U.S. lawyer’s workplace in Los Angeles stated.
“Hate and violence are antithetical to American values and tear at our community. It is therefore critical that we protect the civil and constitutional rights of our community against those who promote divisiveness,” U.S. Lawyer Martin Estrada stated in a press release.
Prosecutors say Rundo co-founded the Rise Above Motion, which they describe as “a combat-ready, militant group of a new nationalist white supremacy and identity movement.” He and two others had been accused of planning and fascinating in violence at gatherings in Huntington Seaside, Berkeley and San Bernardino in 2017.
Rundo was arrested in 2018 for inciting violence at California protests and at a lethal riot in Charlottesville, Virginia. A federal courtroom dismissed the fees in 2019, however they had been reinstated by a federal appeals courtroom in 2021.
Rundo had left america after the fees had been dismissed and was extradited final 12 months from Romania once they had been reinstated.
