White Nationalist Leader Heimbach Goes To Jail For Domestic Abuse Charges

on March 5, 2018 in East Lansing, Michigan.
EAST LANSING, MI - MARCH 05: White nationalist Matthew Heimbach fights with demonstrators at Michigan State University as he and other alt-right advocates try to attend a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer o... EAST LANSING, MI - MARCH 05: White nationalist Matthew Heimbach fights with demonstrators at Michigan State University as he and other alt-right advocates try to attend a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer on March 5, 2018 in East Lansing, Michigan. Spencer was granted permission to speak after suing the university which is currently on spring break. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A white nationalist on probation for harassing a protester at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Kentucky in 2016 is going to jail after a domestic abuse incident in Indiana.

Matthew Heimbach, 27, was ordered to serve 38 days in jail for violating the terms of his two-year probation for the Trump rally incident.

Heimbach appeared Tuesday in misdemeanor court in Louisville and was led away in handcuffs.

“I really hope that I do not see you back here in this court,” Jefferson County District Judge Stephanie Burke said.

“Yes, your honor,” Heimbach replied before being led to the county jail.

Heimbach’s probation violation was for an arrest in Paoli, Indiana, in March on battery charges for allegedly assaulting his wife’s stepfather, David Matthew Parrott. A police report said Heimbach choked Parrott twice into unconsciousness. Heimbach was arrested at his home after police heard him arguing and scuffling with his wife, who was inside with him and their two children. Brooke Heimbach told police Heimbach had assaulted her.

Heimbach is chairman of the Traditionalist Worker Party, which has described itself on its website as “fighting to secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” He has been a leading figure in the white nationalist movement and was one of the scheduled speakers last year at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Heimbach was on probation for physically harassing an African-American woman who was protesting at a rally in Louisville for then-presidential candidate Trump in March 2016. He had a 90-day jail sentence suspended in that incident as long as he stayed out of trouble and took anger management classes.

Heimbach’s attorney, Jay Lambert, said Tuesday that the 38-day jail term was agreed upon after negotiations with prosecutors.

Lambert said Heimbach no longer lives in Indiana.

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  1. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    “Heimbach was arrested in Paoli, Indiana, in March on battery charges for allegedly assaulting his wife’s stepfather, David Matthew Parrott. The men had argued over Heimbach’s alleged affair with Parrott’s wife, according to court documents.”

    Was there a trailer in there somewhere? There’s gotta be a trailer…

  2. Heimbach has been a leading figure in the white nationalist movement.

    No, he’s a piece of white trash from a trailer park… literally.

  3. Please, please, please let him be forced to do his time in general population. I’ve never been to metro corrections, but I can’t imagine there’s a large presence of white supremacists. There are, however, a whole lot of black folk, white boys who think they’re black, brown people, and white boys who don’t want to be associated with white supremacists. Things won’t go well.

  4. Poor widdle nazi. Boo-fucking-hoo. What are the odds he’s involuntarily celibate too…you know, one of those pathetically deprived, misogynist ‘incels’?

    Its amazing how the internet has increased my vocabulary by leaps and bounds with all these new words.

  5. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    The white race simply isn’t sending its best…

    But no doubt all this happened to him because of the stress of living under a black president.

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