‘I’m a good man worthy of a good future’ Neo-Nazi That Attacked OPP Show offers a Mea Culpa from Prison

We love it when Nazis give up that life – if they are sincere. Reading this interview with Nick Mucci, we think there is a way to go before people accept his sincerity.

BRIDGETON, NJ – The White Supremacist currently serving a eight-year sentence for aggravated arson and terroristic threats and weapons stemming from an arrest after attacking a One People’s Project benefit show in 2023 says in a new interview that he is a changed man.

“I know I made a mistake, but I’m a good man worthy of a good future,” Nicholas Mucci says in an interview from South Woods State Prison, a medium security prison that he described as “a college campus but with barbed wire.” He considered the attempt to smoke bomb and pepper spray the show featuring a number of popular hardcore punk bands  “a prank” and wondered if he would have faced the same punishment had he lived in a red state instead of blue New Jersey. Regardless, he does take responsibility for what he did.

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The show sold-out Trinity Church in Asbury Park, NJ that featured Pain of Truth, End It, Restraining Order, Threat 2 Society and Hold My Own. While the article notes the event was an “anti-racism concert,” One People’s Project isn’t mentioned. The concert was nearing its end when Mucci exited his car shouting “White Lives Matter” and attempting to smoke bomb the attendees. “White Lives Matter” was the name of the group from which Mucci’s organization, Garden State Nationalists, split before rebranding itself as the Atlantic Nationalists Club. Other members of that hate group with him that night included Mucci’s friend Samuel Kieffer Bray and Claudino G. Petruccelli, the group’s leader. 

After the group’s original plan to fly a drone over the show failed to materialize when the drone’s owner did not show they could agree on an alternative plan of action. Frustrated, Mucci and Bray left the group and attacked the show on their own. Neither he nor Bray ever left the car, Mucci flinging the smoke bombs from the driver’s side window. An hour later Mucci this time alone would return in an attempt to pepper spray an attendee before again driving off. In the interview, Mucci noted the shock and fear he saw from the attempted pepper spray victim when he jumped out of his car. 

“I really wish I could just give him a hug and just apologize and say, ‘Listen, man, I’m sorry,’” Mucci said. “He didn’t deserve that. I’ll never forget his face. I felt so bad after that. Like, ‘I can’t believe I just did this to this guy.’”

The interview notes further that afterwards Mucci claims he realized the victim feared for his life, and he drove to a nearby beach, lying in the grass and staring up at the moon. “I just said to myself, ‘Why did I do that?’” he said, “This is going to haunt me.” Witness accounts differ from Mucci’s, saying that he attempted the pepper spray attack, but then ended up spraying himself in the face and then retreating in pain.

The interview covers Mucci’s upbringing, stating that he originally held liberal views. Unfortunately, he then began to drift towards conservatism and then the far-right and eventually landed in racist hate groups. Mucci’s mother Debbie Rinaldi of how that put him in the dark place he sees himself in now. She however declined to speak about another attacks he participation in October 2022 during an appearance at  Penn State by Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnis . He was accompanied by Petruccelli and other members of his group, and he also reportedly pepper-sprayed protesters at the event.

Authorities found an unregistered assault rifle with a bump stock and “a homemade bomb, consisting of several fireworks taped together, with the addition of an external fuse.” He said in the interview when the law enforcement burst into his home, he was getting ready to call his girlfriend that he was going to leave his activism world behind and “ready to live a better and clean life” with her. Curiously, earlier in the day Mucci was arrested after he participated in a flash mob styled rally consisting of both his group, the Atlantic Nationalists Club and disgraced former journalist, Dan D’Ambly’s New Jersey European Heritage Association during an Irish Festival in his hometown Toms River, NJ. His now former girlfriend has since moved away to New England.

Mucci will be eligible for parole in Sept. 2026.