3 stabbed, 13 arrested at KKK rally in California.

William Quigg, the Ku Klux Klan leader arrested in Anaheim, California melee was previously in South Carolina in support of Black Church shooter Dylan Roof and the confederate flag 

His Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is headed by North Carolina man who is FBI informant

By Nate Thayer

February 27, 2016

Three people were stabbed during a violent melee at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, California today. At least one was critically wounded, according to police. 13 people were arrested following the violence, including at least seven Klan members, two of whom are accused of stabbings, said Anaheim Police Sergeant Daron Wyatt.

One of those arrested was said to be William Quigg, the California Grand Dragon—or state chapter head—of the North Carolina based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He also serves as the “West Coast King Kleagle” of the LWK—or chief recruiter for the Klan faction.

Quigg’s real name is William “Billy” Hagen, of Anaheim, according to other members of the LKW Klan faction.

Three people were stabbed during a violent melee at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, California today. At least one was critically wounded, according to police. 13 people were arrested following the violence, including at least seven Klan members, two of whom are accused of stabbings, said Anaheim Police Sergeant Daron Wyatt.

California Loyal White Knights of the KKK state leader William Quigg aka Billy Hagen wielding an American flag during confrontation with counter protestors today in California (Photo Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via the AP))

The violence was instigated by anti-Klan counter-protestors, said several eyewitness and police.

As soon as several Klan members arrived at the site of the approved demonstration, they were attacked by a larger contingent of counter-protestors. “As soon as they got out of their vehicle, immediately they were attacked by counter-protesters and this caused a melee down the block,” Anaheim Police Sergeant Daron Wyatt said.

Anaheim police came under criticism for having no police presence at the site of the violent fracas, which extended for a city block. The Klan had a permit to demonstrate and the authorities knew there would be a contingent of counter protestors present at least two days prior to the protest.

Counter Protestors arrived at Pierson Park at about 11:00 and Klan members showed up about two hours later. A black sport utility vehicle pulled up and several KKK men dressed in black uniforms covered in Klan and confederate flag insignia got out and began to unload signs when about 50 counter-protesters attacked them with flying debris and physical assaults. “Three people were stabbed by the fire hydrant,” Darren Simpson, 49, told the Los Angeles Times. “These Klan guys were fighting for their lives.”

There were no police present for nearly 5 minutes, when the violence broke out.

The Klan members attempted to get back into the car but it sped off, leaving three of them behind, Dion Garcia, 37 told the Times.

An injured protestor. It was unclear whether the man was KKK or a counter protestor (photo MELODY SHORE via NY Daily News)

The angry mob chased the Klansmen down the block, yelling “Get out of here! You’re not welcome!” Garcia said.

“It was crazy,” he said, adding: “A lot of us were trying to break it up. This was not necessary, they should have just let the Klan protest. This is America, we have free speech.”

One of the counter-demonstrators was stabbed with a flag pole flying the American flag. A photograph published by the Associated Press shows the Grand Dragon of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, William Quigg, wielding the flag pointed at a demonstrator who was later photographed with stab wound injuries to his upper chest. That man was taken to a hospital in critical condition, Anaheim police spokesman Wyatt said.

The Anaheim California counter KKK protestor after being stabbed by American Flag (Photo by the excellent Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via the AP)

Sgt. Daron Wyatt says a Klan member was stomped on by counter-protesters during another altercation about 100 feet away.

Details are contradictory and emerging, but several show Quigg involved in the fracas.

KKK California state Grand Dragon William Quigg being roughed up by counter protestors (Photo Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via the AP)

Shortly afterward, Quigg is seen after being attacked. He is believed to be under arrest (Photo Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via the AP)

The Loyal White Knights are known as one of the most incendiary and violent of the numerous Klan factions spread around the U.S.

On Martin Luther King Day in January this same LWK Klan group distributed racist flyers in nearby Santa Ana, about 8 miles south of Anaheim, reading “On Martin Luther King Day, you are celebrating a communist pervert.” The fliers carried the name and phone number of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK national headquarters in North Carolina.

The Loyal White Knights of the KKK Imperial Wizard—or national leader—Chris Barker also wears another hat: Christopher Eugene Barker works as an undercover agent for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation–working for and protected by the U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).

A voice message left on the hotline of Chris Barker’s Loyal White Knights of the KKK shortly after the mass murder of the four black church parishioners in South Carolina (Graphic made of excerpts of voice recording of LWK National Hotline in Possession of Author)

In July of 2015, Barker took out the legal permit and organized a demonstration in support of Dylan Roof—the 21 year-old South Carolina man who killed nine black parishioners in a Charleston church the month before—and in protest of the state taking down the Confederate flag.

But Barker, who bills himself head of the “largest Klan in America”, could not attend his own rally. “Part of my federal parole is I can not be involved in any Klan work,” said Barker in an interview July 16.

But that doesn’t stop Barker from working full-time as the national Klan leader. He holds no other employment and is well-known within the Klan movement as in full control and active in the daily organizing of his members nationwide.

In Barker’s stead in South Carolina last July was Jeff Schoep, the leader of the largest Nazi party in the United States, who was the featured speaker, according to several sources in the Ku Klux Klan, the National Socialist Movement (NSM), and law enforcement sources.

Schoep leads the neo Nazi NSM, with chapters in 38 states. “We were invited by Chris Barker of the Loyal White Knights. We stand with him in defence of American values, ” said NSM spokesman Brian Culpepper in an interview. “Commander Jeff Schoep will be a featured speaker at the event.”

William Quigg arrived in Greensboro North Carolina airport last July for the South Carolina KKK and neo-Nazi rally in defense of the confederate flag and church shooter Dylan Roof (screenshot taken from video of arrival of LWK Grand Dragon at Greensboro, North Carolina airport on arrival to attend pro Dylan Roof/Confederate Flag rally in Charleston, S.C. in July, 2015)

Also at that rally at the South Carolina capitol building, which gained widespread national attention in the wake of the church shooting, was William Quigg, the same head of Barker’s California chapter of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK who was both injured and arrested today in the violent melee in Anaheim.

In South Carolina last July, Quigg told reporters ““Jesus was not a Jew, Catholics are not true Christians, and there was no Holocaust.” Quigg added “Okay, maybe a little Holocaust — but not as bad as they say.”

William Quigg, the KKK California leader arrested in today’s Klan melee with counter protestors tweeting his support for Donald Trump for President (Twitter screen grab of California LWK Klan leader Will Quigg aka Billy Hagen)

In September, 2015 Quigg tweeted “@realDonaldTrump‪ You Sir are the only hope we have of getting WHITE AMERICA BACK! WE all will be voting for you! CHURCH OF INVISABLE EMPIRE”

In August 2012, a federal grand jury heard recordings of conversations between a New York man who was trying to develop a radioactive ray gun and Chris Barker, the Imperial Wizard of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who was taping the call as a confidential informant and cooperating witness of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The New York man had earlier contacted Barker and emailed the Klan leader, “unbeknownst to the government,” according to the FBI, and the two began to collaborate. Barker became so involved that on July 27, 2012, The New York man told an undercover FBI agent he was in contact with Barker and suggested he call Barker, according to emails obtained by this reporter. “The Knights [Barker’s group] may have the resources to invest and bring the project to fulfillment,” wrote the man trying to develop a radioactive ray gun device.

Loyal White Knights members at a recent rally (Photo Sarah Foudy via BBC)

On August 7, Barker was arrested on unrelated federal charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to Forsyth County, North Carolina, law enforcement officials and sources close to the investigation. Three days after he was arrested, he told the cops about the scheme and cut a deal with the FBI. “While sitting in the can, on August 10 he called the FBI and sold the government this ridiculous story about how he had information of a plot with enough explosives in New Jersey to blow up New Jersey and New York together,” said one source familiar with the case.

Barker is a rogue white supremacist with a long record that includes multiple DUI charges, numerous arrests for violence, and such a loathsome reputation that even other Klansman regularly denounce him. In fact, Barker was a key suspect in a 2011 defacing of a church, an incident that led to him getting kicked out of one Klan group.

Barker remains in the FBI’s good graces and under their protection and guidance, even though he is the chief suspect in the painting of a swastika on a synagogue in Southeastern Virginia in July 2011—a hate crime that has gone curiously unpursued, according to local and federal law enforcement, KKK members, and synagogue officials.

On that Independence Day weekend, four members of the Rebel Brigades of the Ku Klux Klan attended a cross burning in rural southeastern Virginia, got drunk, drove to Danville, and desecrated the Beth Shalom Synagogue by painting a swastika on the front door.

Local police opened a criminal investigation; the FBI was notified immediately that a hate crime had occurred.

William Quigg of the Loyal White Knights at the South Carolina State House rally in defense of the confederate flag demonstrating along with neo-Nazis (screen grab of video obtained by author of LWK rally in South Carolina July 2015 in support of Confederate flag)

“Chris Barker has been very high on the list of suspects for the synagogue incident since the get-go,” said Danville police chief Philip Broadfoot in an interview in July 2015.

Multiple Klan officials, others with knowledge of events that night, and four law enforcement officials confirmed that Barker was the ringleader behind the hateful vandalism. Two months after the incident, one of those who committed the crime confessed to the Rebel Brigades of the Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard and named the people, including Loyal White Knights Imperial Wizard Chris Barker, as responsible. The other KKK group promptly expelled the four members, including Barker and his wife.

“You do not deface houses of worship—ever,” said Rebel Brigades leader Billy Snuffer. “We kicked them out in the third week of September, 2011 when we found out. Chris Barker gives the Klan a black eye.”

No one has been arrested for the crime, though in July 2015 the FBI listed the case as “investigation closed,” according to public records.

“God said you should always find something good in someone, but I don’t think God has ever met Chris Barker,” said the Rebel Brigades of the KKK leader Snuffer.