ORLANDO, Fla. — Before Samantha could escape the white supremacist hate group she joined almost a year prior, she had to accept that leaving was more important to her than living.
It was August 2017. Heather Hyer had just been killed by a man who rammed his car through a sea of protesters during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The leaders of Identity Evropa, the group Samantha joined the previous December, helped plan the rally. But Samantha, who could sense the potential for danger, didn’t go.
Instead, she watched in horror as the deadly violence unfolded on TV at the restaurant where she worked.
