 His comrade Will Quigg, the "California Grand Dragon West Coast King Kleagle" of the "Loyal White Knights" and as such in charge of the area from Texas to the Pacific, was attacked.Brian Levin, a professor and director of the Centre for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, intervened, saving Quigg from further harm.Quigg proceeded to engage in playing down the Holocaust and he also blamed Jews for what he called "white cultural genocide".