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BREAKING🚨🏳️‍🌈 A gay Filipino American man was riding the D.C. Metro on the Fourth of July when hundreds of masked white nationalists boarded and surrounded him. He texted friends his location so someone would know where he was. His name is Roswell Encina. He runs the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to preserve the history of the building where the people are supposed to be represented. He was headed to a July 4th party in Maryland when the train car changed. At Eastern Market or Potomac Avenue, he saw the men board — khaki pants, blue shirts, white face coverings, sunglasses. Members of Patriot Front, the white nationalist group that emerged after the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. They carried Confederate flags and altered American flags and chanted "Reclaim America." "I think I froze a little bit," Encina said. He didn't know at first who they were. He noticed patches, logos, and started piecing it together. "I was terrified, honestly, just because I wasn't sure what the motives were." They stayed on the train with him for about 25 minutes. He thought it was just his car, maybe the next one. Then he watched hundreds of them pour off at New Carrollton, a Maryland suburb. "It really did kind of take my breath away." A Getty photographer named Finn Gomez captured Encina sitting there, masked figures crowding around him. The image spread everywhere. Two other photos from the same day showed a young Black woman and a Black man on the Metro, surrounded the same way. Encina came to this country as an infant. His father served in the U.S. Navy. When he turned 18 in the Philippines, his dad took him to the U.S. Embassy in Manila so he could vote. D.C. police said there were no arrests. The transit agency didn't respond to questions about passenger safety. This wasn't a rally in a stadium. This was hundreds of masked men taking over public trains full of families on Independence Day and walking off without a single officer stopping them. If you appreciate Gay News, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.