Aryan Parade Permit Reviewed

Thu., July 29, 1999

City officials are reviewing a request by Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler for a permit to hold a downtown parade on Sept. 4, the Saturday of Labor Day weekend.

City Clerk Susan Weathers has until Monday to decide whether she will issue the permit. Police supervisors reviewed Butler’s application on Friday and forwarded it back to the clerk’s office on Monday, said Coeur d’Alene police Chief Dave Scates.

Butler is planning a parade of 50 to 80 followers, one automobile and one dog. The white supremacy group wants “to finish the parade aborted by the police due to anti-Christ protestors,” Butler wrote in his parade applications.

About 16 protesters blocked Sherman Avenue during the Aryan Nations parade on July 10, forcing police to reroute the last half of the march to avoid a confrontation.

Police arrested four protesters, but released several more when an angry crowd began challenging them in the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Fourth Street.

Detectives are still reviewing footage of that incident and plan to seek criminal charges against several others.

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