Church of the Creator: Creed of Hate
On May 17, 1991, George Loeb, 36, a COTC "reverend,"
killed Petty Officer 3rd Class
Harold J. Mansfield, Jr., 22, an African-American Persian
Gulf War veteran from Oklahoma city, Oklahoma. The murder
took place in the parking lot of a shopping center in
Neptune Beach, Florida, where the two individuals lived.
According to press accounts at the time of the murder,
the incident occurred when Loeb's car
made a left turn into the parking lot, almost sideswiping
Mansfield's car, which was backing out.
Trouble began when Mansfield honked his horn at Loeb; an
argument ensued, but Mansfield pulled
away. Loeb then pulled into a convenience store, where,
while buying two six-packs of beer, he
handed the cashier a business card that read "White People
Awaken. Save the White Race." The
cashier told reporters that Loeb had also angrily shouted
his racist views throughout the store.
The whole incident might have ended there, but
Mansfield tragically decided to return to the
parking lot. accompanied by a friend and armed with a brick,
to confront Loeb. When Mansfield and
the COTC member saw one another, their argument resumed.
Mansfield brought out his brick; Loeb
produced a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun. According to
newspaper accounts, Mansfield
retreated at this point, but Loeb fired a single bullet into
Mansfield's chest, blowing the veteran back
into his car.
Loeb continued to fire his gun, apparently at
Mansfield's companion, who was running toward
the grocery store to call for help. By the time the man
returned to the car, Mansfield was already near
death. "I was telling him [Mansfield] not to die on me," he
told reporters. "He was my best friend."
Though this was certainly the most graphic
manifestation of Loeb's COTC-derived racist
philosophy, it was not the first In November 1990, he had
been arrested after an African-American
woman told police that she and her daughter had been
followed by Loeb, who had called the woman
a racist name and had threatened to shoot her. The following
January, he reportedly started a fistfight
with a Black neighbor the morning after he had been arrested
on charges of disorderly intoxication
and resisting arrest. During this period, the tenant
association at Loeb's condominium complex
attempted unsuccessfully to have him and his wife evicted.
"The tense situation can only get worse,
culminating in possible violent action." the tenants wrote
to Loeb's landlord.
Loeb himself had recorded his violent beliefs in a
number of writings over the years. For
example, only seven weeks before the murder, he wrote a
letter to The Fort Pierce Tribune, in
which he stated:
To you, your readers and all of chose quoted [in a
Tribune article]. let me just say
this_WAKE UP! There is no need to judge each individual
nigger. We do
not have the time.... It is your obvious intention to
reinforce the mistaken
impressions of the ignorant. This is to the detriment
of the besieged white
community. It is also why we publish and distribute
Racial Loyalty: to offset the
deliberate lies and distortions of the jewish [sic]
media and to motivate White
people to clean up this mess themselves since they
cannot count on you, your
paper or your police for any help.
Loeb had also once told a reporter that, "The only
thing they [Blacks] can do is get'in
my face, and that's a mistake.... If my back's against the
wall, I won't run. I have to do what I have
to do." In all, police seized 1,600 pages of personal
correspondence and racist propaganda from Loeb's
apartment, of which only 15 pages were introduced at his
trial; according to news accounts, the most
significant of these documents was a handwritten note to a
member of the Ku Klux Klan in which
Loeb advised: "The frequent use of the word nigger should
lead to a widespread and violent black
uprising that should give whites (and possibly police) the
opportunity to kill large numbers of them
with impunity. It is our feeling as Creators [i.e., C0TC
members] that shrinking the numbers of
blacks worldwide is one of the highest priorities."
Within hours of the killing, Loeb and his wife Barbara,
31, had moved out of their
condominium, and had fled the state. Though police reported
that Barbara Loeb was spotted two
weeks later in Wisconsin, where members of her family lived,
the fugitive couple was arrested on June
6, 1991, in Poughkeepsie, New York. Police tracked the two
down to a grocery store where Loeb had
allegedly assaulted a security guard who had caught him
trying to steal a $3.35 package of turkey
breast. When the arriving officers searched the Loebs' car,
they found two smoke bombs, a .22-caliber
rifle with a scope and extra magazines, a 12 gauge shotgun,
and approximately one thousand rounds of
assorted ammunition. Additionally, Barbara Loeb's purse
contained a handgun and ammunition.
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