The Texas Department of Public Safety is searching for a violent white supremacist who is believed to have moved from Pennsylvania to Austin last year. Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 44, is charged with making terroristic threats after DPS said he promised to “carry a firearm onto the Texas State Capitol grounds this weekend and challenge any law enforcement officer who tried to take enforcement actions against him.” The department is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to Lloyd’s arrest. Lloyd is a lifelong bigot with an avowed hatred for women, people of color, Jews, the LGBTQIA community, and police, among many others. He calls himself the reverend of the Church of Ben Klassen, which he created to preach race war, and has spent much of his adult life in prison – on weapons charges, and then for violating his parole by promoting violence on social media. For example, after the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 and injured six others, Lloyd – then on probation, and specifically prohibited from using the internet to promote terrorism – couldn’t help but encourage lone-wolf attacks against Jews and gun-ban advocates. He was sent back to federal prison until the end of 2020. Members of the local antifascist community believe that after his release, Lloyd moved to the Highland neighborhood of Austin. They report that stickers and posters with messages such as “RaHoWa” (racial holy war), “White Pride,” and “Fuck Diversity” began appearing in schoolyards, parks, and government buildings around the area in November. Now, Lloyd is thought to have moved to the Southpark Meadows area and fliers and stickers are appearing there.
via autinchronicle: Hardcore-Nazi Austinite Wanted by the Law After making numerous threats, local white supremacist made a mistake in threatening law enforcement