Excerpts from the Charlie Kirk Vigil in Huntington Beach, CA

But what if Kirk's death was vengence for Hortman's?

White supremacists, death threats and ‘disgust’: Charlie Kirk’s killing roils Huntington Beach​

• White supremacists disrupted vigils for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Huntington Beach, marching and chanting, “White men fight back.”
• The action sparked fierce pushback from residents.
• The incidents rekindled memories of skinhead activity that once [sic] plagued the conservative Orange County beach city.

Then on Saturday, a white nationalist organization, identified by experts as Patriot Front, showed up at another beachside memorial for Kirk. The men, wearing khakis, navy blue shirts and white gaiters concealing their faces, marched down Main Street toward the beach holding a picture of Kirk. “Say his name!” they yelled. [Isn't just about everybody already doing so?] “Take back our world! Take back our land!”

By Sunday, key political leaders in the conservative Orange County city known as a hotbed for the MAGA movement were fighting to contain the situation

Huntington Beach leaders have fought to rid the city of that [allegedly bygone skinhead] image and tried to make clear that hate is not welcome in Surf City. But events of the last week have made these efforts more difficult.

This is happening as Huntington Beach has emerged as a West Coast beacon for Trump and MAGA. The city has made headlines in recent years for removing the Pride flag from city properties, rewriting a decades-old human dignity resolution — deleting any mention of intolerance of hate crimes — and wading into fights with state officials over issues like transgender student privacy.

Barbara Richardson, who has lived in the city since the early 1970s, criticized city leaders for extending the mourning period for Kirk, flying flags half-staff through sundown on Sept. 21 — the day of his memorial service — saying that it will only contribute to rising tensions in the city.

“It’s disheartening,” Richardson said. “I think what happened at the Charlie Kirk rallies was a real black eye for Huntington Beach and it hurts tourism. It made me not want to go downtown. I remember the city in the 1980s and it was scary. I didn’t want to be around skinheads then and I still don’t.”