FILE - Chris Kluwe, then of the Oakland Raiders, participates in warm-ups prior to a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on August 16, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

LOS ANGELES — Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe made national headlines more than a decade ago for his vocal support of same-sex marriage while playing for the Minnesota Vikings.

This week, the Orange County native garnered attention closer to home when he railed against a "MAGA" acrostic plaque that's set to be placed outside the Huntington Beach Central Library in celebration of its 50th anniversary, saying the ideology is "profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly...explicitly a Nazi movement."

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"You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is," Kluwe, 43, told the council during Tuesday's meeting. The chambers erupted in applause.

Then, in what Kluwe said was an act of "peaceful civil disobedience," he took a few steps toward the council dais where he was immediately surrounded by police officers. His plan was to stand near the dais until he was removed, he said. The move landed him in city jail with a misdemeanor citation for disturbing an assembly, Kluwe told The Los Angeles Times in an interview Thursday.

"I have the responsibility to step up and do something,"........

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