Keith Mathew Ray of Williamsport PA is a member of Patriot Front, highly likely as “Patrick PA” & PF-251979. He was present in Boston MA during the July 2022 march that led to the assault of Charles Murrell III, though in a distant support role.
Recently, Patriot Front put up a bunch of stickers in Manchester NH. Allies of the local Pride coalition disposed of Patriot Front’s trash w/quickness, and no one else noticed. The PF locals may have sourced additional wasted effort from another chapter. There’s been a lot of recent collaboration between Patriot Front Networks 7 and 10, the New England chapter and NYC/Philly metro chapters respectively. By “collaboration,” I mean NW7 has been significantly picking up NW10’s slack in New York, where the local chapter seems dead.
I’m informed by locals that Patriot Front’s presence in PA has also mostly been null for awhile, save a continued presence of someone stickering around Williamsport PA. If that’s still the case, Keith Ray is likely the best known candidate for it.
Ray was one of three members in the UHaul carrying Patriot Front’s marching gear away from Boston MA, when it was pulled over by staties for improper plate bullshit. Here’s the story by @LauraCrimaldi that dropped Ray’s ID in my lap.
The driver of the UHaul was Colton Brown, a/k/a “John WA,” who was cited for the plates. Previously IDed by @WANaziWatch! Another passenger was Garret Garland, a/k/a “Randolph IL,” who got dinged for a seatbelt violation. Previously IDed in this Hatewatch piece by @JeffTischauser!
Anyway, details revealed about Ray in the Boston Globe story, most notably his age and residence in Williamsport PA, line up with a Patriot Front vetting interview, leaked by @UR_ninja, conducted on 11/28/2021 by Garland & Antonio Barr a/k/a “Jason TX.”
Ray seems to have been pinched by Montoursville PD for criminal mischief late January, a charge to which he pled guilty. Mountoursville is less than 10min from Williamsport by car. It’s kinda looking like he got caught putting up Patriot Front’s slaptags!
While I’m normally highly interested in pushing as much information out about any given member of a white supremacy outfit as possible, Ray actually appears to maintain some degree of info security. There’s not a lot of info to be had on Keith M. Ray beyond when he was born and where he lives. Today, though, I’m more interested in building something else: a list, and one that’s long overdue at that.
With this video and records of the traffic stop, we have four people involved in the Boston MA march: Keith Ray, Garret Garland, Colton Brown, and Brian Harwood. Footage shot by @RodWebber clearly includes long-time Patriot Front organizers Paul Gancarz and Kieran Morris (in the same outfit he was arrested in during the previous month, no less). I’ve noted elsewhere the likely presence of local Patriot Front members Alex Beilman and Mark & Jake Hayden (sometimes I call them Mayden & Jayden because I want to waste as few syllables on them as possible).
The lawsuit filed by @FoleyHoag lists Thomas Rousseau as the only named member of the march, alongside 99 John Does. Rousseau was arrested in February for a felony warrant stemming from his involvement in Unite the Right, got served for Murrell v. Patriot Front while awaiting extradition for said felony arrest in a Waco TX jail, and seems to have defaulted on Murrell v. Patriot Front because he couldn’t be bothered to have someone grab his mail for him while he was running his mouth in West Virginia! Terribly funny array of consequences for Tommy.
So, with Rousseau, Harwood, Brown, Garland, Ray, Beilman, the Hayden brothers, Gancarz, and Morris out of the way, that leaves ninety people to be named for the inevitable damages portion of Murrell v. Patriot Front.
Find here an event dossier for the 2022 Boston march that I do hope to fill in as I learn more: A compiled package of media related to the 2022 Boston march can be made available on request. If you’re an eager antifascist researcher who can ID your local Patriot Front members from a glance, I’d like to chat! ∴