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ROF's leader, Jordan Jereb, founded the group in 2014. Jereb and other members of the group have made violent threats in the past, and while the group does not have a significant history of violence, its use of violent language has raised concerns. Jereb was first arrested in 2016 for threatening a
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However, it was later reported that Jereb had recanted his claim of Cruz's involvement with ROF, stating that he had made the claim as a joke and had no real information about Cruz's alleged ties to the group. Despite this, the association between ROF and the school shooting brought additional
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was affiliated with ROF. This claim was quickly picked up by other media outlets, causing known white supremacists like
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