The chairman of a hate group responded to a request from the Gazette-Mail by implying a woman who accused him of battery is a liar, and saying the truth will come out.
William White Williams II, the chairman of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, was arrested Dec. 16 on a battery charge for allegedly assaulting a woman who previously worked at the organization's Mill Point location, according to a criminal complaint filed in Pocahontas County Magistrate Court. She also had an order prohibiting him from contact with her, which was dismissed this week.
Williams, 68, did not respond to a request for comment until after deadline earlier this week.
In his response, he said the alleged victim has applied for orders of protection before and referred to himself as a "latest victim."
In the article earlier this week, a police officer said that Williams was always nice to the police force, but, when asked, acknowledged the police force is white.
Williams responded to that part of the article by saying he was nice to the police, and they were nice to him.
"I guess that has been because we are all White, eh?" he wrote, followed by an angel emoji. He denied a request for a phone interview.
The National Alliance was once of the most powerful hate groups in the country. The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates that it now has a "handful" of members.
The organization is headquartered in Tennessee but has a compound in Pocahontas County.