Former police officer Jim Stachowiak is encouraging "patriots" to join him in attacking Black Lives Matteractivists who show up to protest the GOP National Convention in July. Stachowiak posted a video to YouTube on Sunday calling it a "clarion call to action."
In the seven and a half minute long video, the ex-cop is posed in front of a Trump banner, wearing a Trump hat and tshirt, and holding an assault weapon. He asks "all military veterans, law enforcement veterans, followed by three-percenters, patriots, and what I will now call 'lone wolf patriots' to show up in Cleveland, Ohio" for the GOP Convention to "come lawfully armed with lethal and non-lethal weaponry."
Stachowiak then claims Black Lives Matter activists have "threatened to kill Donald Trump" and threatened to enact "genocide" against anyone who is not of African descent. He also calls Black Lives Matter activists "punk ass cowards" and ends the video by saying "death to Islam."
The former Augusta State University safety officer has a long history of illegal activity, according to a 2015 article from ABC 6, which reported Stachowiak has been arrested multiple times. The arrests reveal his fixated on terrorism, the military, and Islam. One arrest was for taking a person's photo from social media and posting it elsewhere on the internet to call the person a terrorist.
In 2010, the Souther Poverty Law Center listed Stachowiak as a member of the Patriot Movement, a group that the SPLC describes as a radically right movement who believes conspiracy theories about the federal government. SLPC's profile of Stachowiak reveals sustained negative and violent attitudes toward gay people, Mexicans, the federal government, and other groups.
The Republican National Committee did not immediately reply to Complex's request for comment.
