White hot hate

Undercover Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe exposed a local recruiter for a neo-Nazi organization, his investigation also revealed an international network of white supremacist accelerationists

By: CBC News Posted: 8:18 AM CST Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021

On the second floor of a Maryland courtroom, Patrik Mathews, clad in an orange prison jumpsuit, his long hair and beard reaching past his shoulders, stood before Judge Theodore Chuang and made a statement.

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Four rows away, in the back of the courtroom, sat Winnipeg Free Press reporter Ryan Thorpe writing as quickly as he could.

“This is a little difficult for obvious reasons,” Mathews, a former Canadian Army reservist, told the court, as he flipped his hair out of his face. “I got involved with the wrong people. What else is there to say?”

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