White Nationalist Leader Heimbach Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges

An alt-right supporter, Matthew Heinbach, right, voices his displeasure at the media after a court hearing for James Alex Fields Jr., in front of court in Charlottesville, Va., Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.  (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
FILE- In this Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, file photo, Matthew Heimbach, center, voices his displeasure at the media after a court hearing for James Alex Fields Jr., in front of court in Charlottesville, Va. A judge has de... FILE- In this Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, file photo, Matthew Heimbach, center, voices his displeasure at the media after a court hearing for James Alex Fields Jr., in front of court in Charlottesville, Va. A judge has denied bond for Fields accused of plowing his car into a crowd at a white nationalist rally. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) MORE LESS
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White nationalist figurehead Matthew Heimbach was arrested on felony domestic violence-related charges Tuesday, according to court records filed in Orange County, Indiana.

The online records show Heimbach was charged with one count of battery and another of domestic battery committed in the presence of a child under 16 years old. He was released on $1,000 cash bond.

Heimbach, 26, is the head of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a neo-Nazi group that advocates for the establishment of an “independent White ethno-state in North America.” He lives in rural Paoli, Indiana with his wife and young sons.

The Orange County prosecutor’s office and court were both closed by the time TPM reached out on Tuesday afternoon. Heimbach did not respond to TPM’s call, email or text message requesting comment.

Heimbach last year pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for shoving a young black protester at a Trump campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky. He had to pay a $145 fine, take anger management classes and stay out of trouble with the law for two years—a provision he may have violated with his latest domestic violence arrest.

Heimbach has been a fixture at other recent white nationalist events, helping organize a “White Lives Matter” rally in Tennessee last fall and brawling with counter-protesters outside of Richard Spencer’s speech at Michigan State University last week.

That event exposed deep fissures in the already strained U.S. white nationalist movement. Spencer announced that he’s quitting his flailing college tour as the events, which are often met with mass protests by anti-racist activists, are no longer “fun.” Spencer’s longtime ally and attorney Kyle Bristow quit the movement outright.

Traditional Worker Party spokesman Matthew Parrott, who is Heimbach’s father-in-law, has announced that he is walking away from the group. In a Monday night post on Gab, a social network popular among the racist far-right, Parrott announced that he would “fully and permanently resign.”

Reached by the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday, Parrott said, “I’m done. I’m out. SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game.”

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  1. Too bad his wife didn’t exercise her 2nd Amendment Rights.

  2. “Traditional Worker Party spokesman Matthew Parrott, who is Heimbach’s
    father-in-law, has announced that he is walking away from the group”

    Could it be beating up his daughter in front of his grand child was a bit over the line? Who would have thunk it? These white nationalist types seem to be melting away in the light of day. Big tough guys. Yeah, right.

  3. OT but I have BREAKING NEWS which is that some crazy street person who claims to be President wants to have a SPACE FORCE to protect America in SPACE. If we have invisible planes we should certainly have a SPACE FORCE and the President can wear a body suit and boots like in Star Trek TOS which some of you older people probably remember. And with that I officially cannot pay any more attention to civic matters today until the results start coming in from PA18.

    President Trump addresses Marines in California:

    "We're doing a tremendous amount of work in space, and I said, maybe we need a new force. We'll call it the 'Space Force.'" pic.twitter.com/Ed3KiOKVSk

    — NBC News (@NBCNews) March 13, 2018

    “A new force! In space! Lemme think of a good name, ooh I know, ‘Space Force!’” Cle-ver! I notice it’s cocktail hour bye now.

  4. Avatar for pb pb says:

    Who could have guessed that a racist POS white supremacist is also a wife beater. I bet he beats his kids and his pets too. Weak-ass c#@%s like Heimbach love to abuse the powerless because it makes them feel more powerful to make others feel weaker.

  5. Just another treaty to probably flagrantly violate.

    That sort of thing used to be news, IIRC

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