That was me, I live on his street and talked to him. He maintains a parking lot across the street and he was out there working on it when I saw and approached him.

I was one of the people who said I recognized him and that he threatened myself and others when we walked by in 2020. I moved from that neighborhood 2 years ago and haven't been by that house since, but from the picture I saw posted yesterday I swear it was him. From my memory, the racist guy on Federal Hill is elderly, white, lives in a white house on Vinton St, it has a decorative cement-looking fence, usually a lot of plants and a garden area on the right side of the house, and the fire hydrant out front is painted like the Italian flag. The picture posted only showed the left side of the house with the man facing away, but I recognized the fencing. If this was a different house, then my bad. Maybe whoever posted the picture can clarify where they were.

>Was there any merit to the person that said they spoke to this guy and he was saying racist / bigoted things? There are people also claiming your father was threatening to shoot people? Is this just random people on Reddit telling lies?

I think so. Telling lies and trying to incite violence, IMO.

Edited to add: The person who made those statements has at least one post in a subreddit that "officially endorses the New Black Panther Party and the Black Hebrew Israelites".

Both of those groups have been classified as violent hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.