Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way, posted an item Friday about the arrests in Pope County of three men identified as participants in a white supremacist organization.

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The three were charged with second-degree battery early Friday. The details behind the arrest weren’t available.

Pope County has been a hotbed of neo-Nazi activity, including a demonstration at a Holocaust memorial event in Russellville. A number of white supremacists were implicated in a federal drug and gun indictment in February. It’s somewhat ironic in strait-laced Pope County, where voters have resisted legal casino gambling and the Russellville City Council just refused to allow legal sale of medical marijuana.

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One of those arrested appears to be the same person who turned up as a counter-protestor when Arkansas Tech University students held a protest about a college scholarship named in honor of a late history professor accused of having anti-Semitic leanings.

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