Nicholas Fuentes. PHOTO: AFP
Nicholas Fuentes, who was one of the participants in the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, claims he has received 15 death threats via email and social media during the past week.
"Massachusetts, and Boston in particular, are among the most left wing states and cities,” he told the Boston Globe, labeling the city and the university campus “very dangerous.”
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"Probably anywhere I would go would be safer than Boston," said Fuentes, a supporter of President Donald Trump who also runs his own political channel on YouTube.
A woman was killed and several people injured when a white supremacist drove his car over a group of counter-protestors in Charlottesville on Saturday. Fuentes said he had attended the rally to protest against immigration and multiculturalism, emphasising that he was not a white nationalist or a racist.
"The rally was about not replacing white people,” he said.
Boston University President Robert Brown has criticised the violence ahead of a ‘free speech’ rally scheduled in Boston on Saturday. Some right-wing activists are due to speak at the rally. Boston leaders have already condemned the hate and violence.
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"Palpably evil acts, such as occurred in Charlottesville, invite the challenging question about what is and is not tolerable or morally acceptable in speech and accompanying deeds," Brown wrote in a letter to the university community. "It is clear to me, and I believe it is a view that is broadly shared in our community, that a claim of inherent racial or ethnic superiority is abhorrent. We must, I believe, explicitly denounce white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that make such claims."
This story originally appeared on TIME.
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