Video of viral alt-right star Richard Spencer getting punched in the face goes viral

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Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas.
Richard Spencer, who leads a motion that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks on the Texas A&M College campus in School Station, Texas.

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2016%2f09%2f16%2ff5%2fhttpi.amz.mshcdn.comjhvrkcpdazmm0pcjkudjpgvalc4250x.d1cc2By Keith Wagstaff

A lot of individuals don't like alt-right chief Richard Spencer. Considered one of them simply took that detest to a violent excessive, by punching Spencer within the face, on digital camera.

Spencer is a white nationalist who rose to fame by way of a viral video of a speech he ended with a Nazi salute, calling for his viewers to "hail Trump." He is additionally referred to as for a "peaceable ethnic cleaning" of the USA—which he needs to show into an "ethno-state" for individuals of European descent—and has since turn into one thing of a star among the many alt-right. 

The aforementioned blow got here Friday from a black-clad protester simply as Spencer was explaining his Pepe the Frog lapel pin. 

Later, Spencer—who as soon as referred to as Martin Luther King Jr. "a fraud and degenerate"—claimed on Twitter that he was punched once more and spat on after the preliminary incident, and proceeded to Tweet out video of the incident himself. 

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