Two Jewish groups are planning lawsuits against a white supremacist group linked to Buford O’Neal Furrow’s recent shooting rampage in Los Angeles. The Jewish Defense League and the Anti-Defamation League are planning separate class-action federal civil rights lawsuits against the Aryan Nations stemming form the incident. Richard Butler, the leader of the Aryan Nations, dismissed the possible lawsuits last week as a “typical Jew response.”
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