After a Nov. 27 rally by the Proud Boys, a male-chauvinist group with ties to white nationalism, Jones said a member of the group followed him and threatened him with bear spray. A week later, a security camera captured someone — Jones believes it was the same man — using white spray paint to cover a message in the window of his restaurant that says “Hate has no place here.” Salem police are investigating.
A few weeks later, street lamps and poles on the block around Epilogue were papered by Patriot Front, a white-nationalist group that sprang up after the violence in Charlottesville and has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and others.
