Reported by One People’s Project:
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ—Ever since the neo-Nazi founder and leader of New Jersey’s largest and most violent neo-Nazi street gang was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning last year while working as a construction worker on the new Revel Casino, his old gang has been attempting to benefit from the lack of attention to his history by the local media, politicians and even some of the leaders of the union he was a member of. Now his widow, herself a longtime association of the crew he led, and his brother are planning an event next month at one of the city’s casinos purporting to benefit a foundation in his name.
On Sept 16 at the Golden Nugget Casino and Hotel, stand-up comedian Butch Bradley, who is a regular on the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson and has appeared on other programs such as Grounded for Life and the Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and his brother Bryan’s widow Carmen plan a benefit for what is called “The Bryan P. Bradley Foundation for Fallen and Injured Workers”. According to Butch’s post on the Facebook Page for the event – which is not able to be seen by all visitors – They plan to make this an annual event. “This event is going to be one of the biggest and best shows put on every year!” he wrote. “It will be a mixture of Live Music and stand-up comedy.”
The show will be a year and a day since Bryan Bradley was killed during a lightning strike that injured two of his co-workers, who along with his widow have since filed a lawsuit against their employers. The Revel Casino, which he was working on at the time of his death, opened in April 2012. Bradley is best known as the head of Atlantic City “Skinheads” (ACS), a neo-Nazi street gang he founded in the late 80s. They eventually became a well-known hate crew in New Jersey and the state’s largest. A number of hate rock bands have emerged from their ranks, such as the Voice, Call the Paramedics, Aggravated Assault and Chaos 88, the last two led by ACS founding member Warren Meickle. In the early days, the organization had a close association with the Hammerskin Nation (HSN), putting out patches in tribute to Nordic Thunder’s lead singer and Hammerskin Joe Rowan, who was killed in a fight with black youths in a Racine, Wisconsin convenience store in 1994. HSN has been in the news after Wade Mitchell Page, a Hammerskin member who played in several Hammerskin bands, including Blue Eyed Devils which formed out of remnants of Nordic Thunder, went on a shooting spree in a Sikh Temple that killed six people in Wisconsin last month. The patch featured the ACS logo of the Celtic Cross with five human skulls at its base.
For it’s part, ACS has also engaged in brutal violence and murder in its over twenty year history, most notably in 2005, when one of its associates Walter Dille, carjacked and killed a black woman as she sat outside a movie theatre in her car in Atlantic City. He is now serving a life sentence for the murder.
In the year since Bradley’s death, very little if at all is mentioned in the media of Bradley’s legacy. Instead he has been painted as a wrong victim and somewhat martyr for the working class. In April, Bradley’s name was added to a monument at Kennedy Plaza on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City which features the names of those who were killed in the workplace, with a ceremony that included state senators and union members, including Senator Jim Whelan (D-Atlantic) and State Assemblyman and John Amodeo, R-Atlantic. It is not certain if the Senator and Assemblyman knew of Bradley prior to the ceremony.
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So who the fuck are ACS?
The Atlantic City “Skinheads” (ACS) are a bonehead crew centered between Atlantic City and Philadelphia that have been hanging around since (depending on who you ask) somewhere between 1988 and 1992.
ACS has not been politically active for most of their history. They participated in a KKK demonstration in Elkton, MD early on in their history, but for the past 20 years or so have mostly been a social group. This, however, has not prevented them from being extremely dangerous.
In 1995 AC Skin Christopher Crumb was convicted of murdering an elderly disabled black man in a lot behind the Chelsea Pub in Atlantic City, a longtime hangout for the gang.
In 1999 former AC Skin Dennis Lurty, Jr. and his father were both arrested for weapons charges. Lurty Jr. was on probation for a racist attack several years earlier and was give 7 years for the violation. His father received probation.
In addition to Bradley (Deceased), Hudson and Mieckle:
Some other known members of ACS are:
ACS has been more active since the death of Bradley, having been spotted at shows in NJ and Philly in recent months.
That partnered with the event being planned in Atlantic City should be a wakeup call to all those opposed to Fascism to mobilize against these scumbags.