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Apr 14, 2009 7:07 pm US/Eastern

Notorious Racist Supports Police Killing Suspect

Reporting
Andy Sheehan
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Hardy Lloyd is a racist, an anti-Semite and a self-described fascist who spews hate on the internet and once faced murder charges in the shooting death of his girlfriend.
 
Since the tragic events of April 4th, Lloyd has praised the actions of Richard Poplawski and exhorted people to kill more police.

Sources say he's being watched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security but thus far his speech is protected.

He calls himself the wolf -- an anti-American terrorist -- espousing the killing of police officers whom he calls "the front-line troops against the people."

To that end -- on his internet radio program -- Lloyd praises the actions of alleged police killer Richard Poplawski and is gleeful about the tragic events of April 4th.

"Brother Richard -- who seems to be following the wolf philosophy -- did a great thing. He killed three {blank} and he did it the right way. Of course while the white power movement is distancing itself, I've been embracing the so-called tragedy," said Lloyd.

Lloyd himself was charged with criminal homicide in the shooting death of his former girlfriend Lori Hann in Squirrel Hill in 2004.

Later, a jury accepted his plea of self-defense and acquitted the then self-described white supremacist.

Today he holds out hope Poplawski will also walk.

"Don't forget, I murdered someone and got away with it and maybe you will too," said Lloyd.

Sources say Lloyd's history and rants have landed him on a domestic terrorism watch list at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security which warned local law enforcement about Lloyd's recent postings.

"I don't think there's any question about it being hate-speech," said Duquesne University law professor Bruce Ledewitz.

As upsetting as his postings may be, since Lloyd is not calling for the killing of specific police officers, Ledewitz says his speech appears to be protected.

"The United States protects free speech to an extent unknown to the rest of the world. That in my opinion is a great thing but we pay a price for it. We have to tolerate speech like this," said Ledewitz.

But Lloyd recently did make this statement about Dennis Roddy, the Post-Gazette reporter who has written about Lloyd and other neo-Nazi and white supremacists over the years.

"Oh, he lives in Mt. Lebanon - a couple of blocks away from my uncle's. So hint, hint. Hahahahaha," said Lloyd.

"It's obvious he starving for attention as to giving out my address, mentioning that I live near his uncle, saying hint, hint and then laughing manically. We know what he's getting at. The problem is do we want to be tricked into giving it to him," said Roddy.

Roddy says it's a tough call.

"The fear is that if we write about him or pay attention that he'll do something; the other fear is that if we don't write about him and pay attention he'll do something," said Roddy.

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