An antisemitic group member pleaded guilty to the assault of a former Nashville bartender hours before he was due in court to face the charges.
Ryan McCann’s jury trial was expected to begin July 28.
He was charged with the assault of Deago Buck, a biracial man who was attacked in July 2024 by McCann and other members of the Goyim Defense League, an antisemitic and white supremacist hate group that marched the streets of Nashville, harassing people and yelling slurs.
McCann, 30, is scheduled to be sentenced on July 30. It’s the same day he is scheduled to be sentenced after a Nashville jury convicted him in June of the July 13, 2024 assault of a Jewish Clarksville man in a downtown Nashville parking lot.
During McCann’s two-day June trial, the Jewish man said the hate group kicked him in a parking lot near Lower Broadway. He said almost 40 members of the group encircled him and a friend that night.
A second group member, Louis Edward Dunn, 43, was charged in connection with the assault on the Clarksville man.
No other members of the group have been charged.
McCann was with several other members of the hate group on July 14, 2024 as they marched on Lower Broadway. During the march, he and several others spotted Buck, who was taking a break on the sidewalk outside Johnny Cash’s Bar & BBQ, and attacked him, police said.
Buck is suing the Goyim Defense League for damages.
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