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Posted: July 8, 2003
On June 13, 2003, two neo-Nazi skinheads were arrested on aggravated assault charges in Phoenix, Arizona, for beating an African-American man in parking lot.
Nicolas Elkins, 23, and Nathan Greeson, 22, allegedly approached Leroy Willis, 53, as he was walking through a grocery store parking lot and proceeded to punch him in the head. After Willis fell to the ground, the attackers continued to hit him while yelling obscenities and racial slurs. Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley called the incident a hate crime.
According to police reports, the two skinheads were arrested in an apartment decorated with swastika flags. Greeson allegedly told police, "We do things to keep the world pure and poison free. We do things to keep this country pure, and we get arrested for doing your job…I have love. I have love inside me but only for the pure White people." Greeson faces an additional charge of assault for spitting at the Asian-American officer who arrested him.
Elkins and Greeson, who have prior convictions for aggravated assault, are associated with the Arizona Northern American Skinheads, a neo-Nazi skinhead group led by Joshua Fiedler, which now goes by the name of SS Guardians.
The racially motivated beating of Willis occurred less than a year after another incident of neo-Nazi violence in Phoenix.
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