After license plates with the captions ‘3REICH’ and ‘FUHRER’ were seen in Alaska, the state government will investigate how and why it approves such void plates.
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Matt Tunseth, a former journalist, spotted the ‘3REICH’ record on a Hummer in Anchorage on Friday and tweeted a photo with the caption: ‘I hate Alaska-Nazis. ‘
No subtle message is sent here. #Nazi #hummer # 3reich pic.twitter.com/qCZ32kvQTo
– Matt Tunseth (@MattTunseth) 23 January 2021
The Alaska Department of Administration said Monday it has recalled both Nazi-themed plates and issued standard replacement plates for their owners. Commissioner Kelly Tshibaka said law enforcement was informed that the plates were not authorized and were therefore illegal.
Both records were registered with a Hummer H2 according to state records.
“I order a review of the DMV guidelines and processes to determine how these plates were issued,” Tshibaka said in a statement to Facebook.
Anchorage Assemblywoman Jamie Allard lost her seat on the state’s human rights commission after defending the signs and writing in Facebook posts that ‘reich’ and ‘fuhrer’ were merely normal German words and not clear references to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi. regime not.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy removed her Tuesday, Alaska NPR subsidiary KAKM reported.
“I do not think it should be difficult to denounce white supremacy,” the chairman of the Assembly, Felix Rivera, told KAKM. ‘It should actually be very easy to expose white supremacy and Nazis. It is therefore unfortunate that the member of the Assembly Allard could not do the right and honest way easy thing. ”
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