“Antifa Philadelphia organized a rally to draw attention to Keystone State “Skinheads” (KSS), a neo-Nazi organization that in recent years has been attempting to revamp their image from a violent and criminal gang to a mainstream community organization called Keystone United, and William Walters, the Grand Dragon of the East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire who was thrown out of the Tacony Town Watch and sparked a June 21 Klan rally that although unannounced brought out antifa and members of the community to oppose them, and later to the home two blocks away of Bryan and Patricia Vanagatis, which for years served as the meeting place and headquarters for KSS. According to Tacony Town Watch head Joe Nicoletti, Walters started a Klan Town Watch in the neighborhood, but police cannot do anything about it. “Antifa Philadelphia thinks enough is enough,” the group stated on the call for people to attend and support the rally, stating further that, “A better world is possible, but not if we have to be dealing with these assholes for the rest of our lives.” The rally was held at the Tacony Public Library, which is located on Torresdale Ave., the same street where William Walters resides, and the location of the Klan rally two months before. As antifa approached the steps, several members of KSS and their associates were already there, including Pittston, PA Republican Committeeman and KSS co-founder Steve Smith, another co-founder, Joseph Hoesch, of Abington, Patrick Rogers of Williamsport, Ron Sheehy of the Advanced White Society, Pat Fahy, a onetime member of the New Jersey Chapter of the Vinlander Social Club (VSC), and Anthony James (AJ) Olsen, the head of KSS’s Philadelphia chapter. After a verbal exchange, police moved the KSS associates from the steps and allowed antifa to hold the demonstration. The KSS associates then moved across the street as a crowd of community residents gathered.”
— PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY, ANTIFA COME OUT AGAINST HATE, AND KEYSTONE STATE ‘SKINHEADS’ DON’T LIKE IT