The man, a self-described “skinhead” and former Ku Klux Klan member who used Facebook to promote white supremacy, was arrested last November fo…
“Comparing the brave men and women of our law enforcement community to Nazis is absolutely reprehensible,” said the chairman of the state GOP.
Just last week Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law the bill I had introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives, with another member of the Jewish caucus, that requires Holocaust and genocide education as a requirement for graduation from Colorado public schools.
Polis said he lost family in the Holocaust and the order is to save lives — “the exact opposite of the slaughter of 6 million Jews.”
“Life goes on. Celebrating goes on, rituals go on, this does not change any of that.”
“For people not to be armed, they’re crazy. I mean, they’re just nuts.”
“I wish the Holocaust really did happen,” he wrote on Facebook.
The notes included “Academia is dominated by Marxist Jews,” and “Jews run the porn industry.”
Police officials said they did not consider the statement to “exterminate the Jews” as a credible threat.
One resident - whose family survived the Holocaust - opposed the name change, saying it erased history.