A Sample of MAGA Racism Percolating Down the Florida GOP Chain of Criminals

West Palm Beach man accused of racist threats, voter intimidation at Loxahatchee polling site
Hannah Phillips, Palm Beach Post
Tue, October 29, 2024




WEST PALM BEACH — Deputies arrested a man accused of yelling anti-Semitic and racial slurs at a woman campaigning outside of an early voting site in Loxahatchee, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Nicholas Farley, 30, faces up to 10 years in prison on two charges related to voter intimidation and interference. According to his arrest report, Farley yelled obscenities while circling the parking lot of the Acreage Branch Library in a white van on Thursday, Oct. 24.

When questioned by deputies, Farley denied knowing that early voting was taking place. He then volunteered the name of a pro-Nazi website and launched into a racist lecture, repeating and supplementing the slurs witnesses accused him of using in the library's parking lot.

Farley's arresting officer said Farley "appeared to enjoy" talking about his hatred of the Jewish and African American communities.

During his interview, recorded on the deputy's body-worn camera, Farley said he uses slurs to describe any person he doesn't like, including those "who commit crime and don't support America and patriots like him."

"When I asked Mr. Farley how does a patriot like him not know when early voting is, he said he is a different kind of patriot," the deputy wrote.

Witnesses said Farley began to speed through the library parking lot with derogatory music blasting, driving toward campaigners and swerving away at the last moment. Loudon, who said she planned to stay longer and vote, left in fear.

Sunday's arrest was not Farley's first.

West Palm Beach police officers arrested Farley in July for allegedly threatening a bi-racial couple with a gun as they walked through downtown West Palm Beach. According to the couple, Farley pulled up next to them in his van and began to yell racial slurs.

The woman, who is white, said Farley told her she "was committing genetic suicide." When her boyfriend asked him to repeat what he'd said, witnesses said Farley pointed a gun and threatened to shoot him.

Police charged Farley with one count of aggravated assault with a firearm. As expected in backwoods republican Florida, prosecutors closed the case within two weeks of his arrest, blaming the outcome on a lack of evidence.

About two months later, a woman called 9-1-1 to report a man for yelling racial slurs at her African American children and others playing at Acreage Park in West Palm Beach. The witness said that when she confronted the man, later identified as Farley, he called her a "race traitor."

Deputies investigating the library incident also identified Farley as a man who repeatedly called the West Palm Beach Police Department in June and yelled racial slurs at the dispatcher.

Farley was appointed a public defender and remains in the Palm Beach County Jail.