Official Proud Boys Discussion Thread

[Motorcity Cobra]

I’ll atart worrying when they are murdering hundreds of victims in big cities around the country and running drug and prostitution rings.

Gang gang

BREAKING: NYPD arrests first Proud Boy: Geoffrey Young, 38, of New York https://t.co/bLo7S4Lv4K

— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) October 19, 2018

[GhostofDempsey]

the Juggalos were classified as a gang by the FBI, lol




i agree, i thought it would be more like this ^ when i read the name



yeah, it sounds like they've got a long way to go to catch up on the hell's angels, lol

Hells Angels are beyond gang status. They are organized crime just like mob and cartels. Bunch of drug dealing scumbags posing as an MC.

[Motorcity Cobra]

One less gang bangin thug on the streets

The New York Police Department announced the first arrest of a member of the Proud Boys on Thursday night for his role in a violent brawl on the streets of Manhattan with a group of antifascist protesters last week.

Geoffrey Young, 38, of New City, New York was arrested around 7 p.m. on charges of riot and attempted assault. He was among 12 people the NYPD wanted in connection with a fight between the two groups following a speech by Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes at the Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan.

The Proud Boys are a violent, ultra-nationalist group that has been deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nypd-a...tifa/main-info

[Vegemil]

So the only people the Proud Boys have attacked are people that come to their rallies to attack them. Man what a terrible group beating down ****tards that think they're allowed to maintain traffic.

[Motorcity Cobra]

FBI now classifies far-right Proud Boys as 'extremist group', documents say

The FBI now classifies the far-right Proud Boys as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism”, according to a document produced by Washington state law enforcement.

The FBI’s 2018 designation of the self-confessed “western chauvinist group” as extremist has not been previously made public.

The Proud Boys was founded by the Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes. McInnes has insisted that his group is not white nationalist or “alt-right” but the Proud Boys have a history of misogyny and glorifying violence. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists them as a hate group.

The document also says: “The FBI has warned local law enforcement agencies that the Proud Boys are actively recruiting in the Pacific north-west”, and: “Proud Boys members have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.”

The report, and the FBI’s warning to south-west Washington police agencies about the Proud Boys’ role in escalating violence at these events came in August, two months before the group was involved in an infamous weekend of street violence in New York City and Portland, and not long after they participated in street violence in downtown Portland on 30 June.

The document, provided to the Guardian by the government transparency non-profit Property of the People, was part of an internal affairs investigation into a probationary deputy in the Clark county sheriff’s department.

The former clark county deputy, Erin Willey, was fired last July after a photo of her wearing a “Proud Boys Girls” sweatshirt was published by the Vancouver, Washington newspaper the Columbian. The Proud Boys Girls is the female auxiliary of the men-only group founded by McInnes in 2016.

The author of the document, headquarters commander Michael McCabe, is in charge of internal affairs, training, background investigation and courthouse security in the Clark county sheriff’s department.

After confirming the authenticity of the document, he told the Guardian in a telephone interview that the FBI’s classification of the Proud Boys as an extremist group was revealed to him in “a briefing we were given by the FBI” on 2 August, at Clark county’s west precinct.

The briefing included agency heads from local law enforcement, and in it the FBI said that they “have been warning [local law enforcement] for a while” about the Proud Boys, “not just in Washington but around the nation”.

The briefing including the Proud Boys was delivered by an FBI analyst, according to information forwarded to the Guardian by McCabe.

It touched on topics including “How the FBI tracks hate/extremist groups”, “Brief history of these groups in the Pacific NW”, “A description of currently active groups with a focus on the Portland/Vancouver area”, and “Current trends or concerns over law enforcement officers/employees involvement with these groups”.

The document says that Willey was an active Proud Boys Girls member between November 2016 and October 2017, and in February 2017 she “actively participated in the manufacturing, advertising and selling of Proud Boys Girls’ merchandise on a website”.

The document concludes that membership in the Proud Boys may constitute a violation of the Clark county sheriff’s department oath to support and protect the laws of the United States, since Proud Boys “members have been documented as having called for the closure of all prisons, the issuing of firearms to everyone, the legalization of all drugs, the deportation of all illegal immigrants and the shutdown of the government”.

Another concern expressed in the document produced by McCabe – which was handed to the sheriff, Chuck E Atkins, so he could make a decision on Willey’s future in the department – was the possibility that the deputy’s membership in the group would constitute a so-called “Brady violation”.

The Brady doctrine requires prosecutors to disclose any potentially exculpatory evidence to defenses in the discovery phase of criminal trials.

Membership in the Proud Boys, the document says, may constitute “evidence that a deputy is biased or has some motive to lie” which could constitute a prosecutorial risk.

According to the report, Willey was placed on administrative leave after the Columbian contacted the sheriff’s department on 2 July. She was fired on 17 July, before the report was completed, and just before the Columbian published its story.

The report also states Willey’s belief that the photo of her in a Proud Boys sweatshirt was given to the Columbian by her former boyfriend, and “active Proud Boy member”, Graham Jorgensen.

Jorgensen has been a regular participant in rallies organized by the Clark county-based Patriot Prayer group, whose events have included Proud Boys, and which have frequently culminated in violence.

Other law enforcement agencies have discovered Proud Boys in their midst and responded in a similar manner. A month after Willey was fired, Brian Green, a patrol deputy in Louisiana, was also let go after social media posts revealed his allegiance to the group.

Willey and Jorgensen could not be reached for comment.

In Clark county, Proud Boys have been integral to the Patriot Prayer movement, which organizes rightwing street marches and rallies in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and other cities in the Pacific north-west.

Asked about the apparent high level of Proud Boy activity and rightwing organizing in Clark county, McCabe said: “I think both as an agency and me, personally, we worry about that.

“Anybody who has watched the news recently can see that the United States appears divided. Any time you are dealing with groups who are espousing hate, it’s certainly a concern for law enforcement,” he added.

McCabe pointed to a joint statement by Atkins and the Clark county prosecuting attorney Tony Golik in the wake of reporting on Willey’s firing.

In that statement, the men said in part: “We reject hate, bigotry, harassment, violence or the inciting of violence, and all actions intended to harm or intimidate others.”

The FBI did not directly address the designation or the briefing in response to specific email questions, but did say that while “the FBI does not and will not police ideology”, the agency “regularly assesses intelligence regarding possible threats and works closely to share that information with our federal, state and local law enforcement partners”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...onalism-report

[BostonGuy]

I like Gavin McInnes - I don't agree with him on numerous issues but I think he's funny and right about his criticism of Islam. If I like McInnes does that make me a white supremist?

[EL_GRINGO]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...onalism-report

Lool the guardian,
That rag is only good for wiping the gh#norrea of a infected kitten.
that's united Kingdom's equivalent to cnn along with the bbc,
They won't give you an accurate view of most european's viewpoints and thoughts, it's just propaganda and fewer and fewer people are listening, the right is marching on in europe
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[Motorcity Cobra]

Lool the guardian,
That rag is only good for wiping the gh#norrea of a infected kitten.
that's united Kingdom's equivalent to cnn along with the bbc,
They won't give you an accurate view of most european's viewpoints and thoughts, it's just propaganda and fewer and fewer people are listening, the right is marching on in europe
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Please don't respond to me if you not gonna actually read what I posted. Thanks.

[Motorcity Cobra]

PATHETIC!!!

Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes announced he is quitting the far-right group of “Western chauvinists” on Wednesday, claiming the move would help Proud Boys members facing assault and riot charges in New York City. “I am officially disassociating myself from the Proud Boys,” McInnes said in a video. “In all capacities, forever, I quit.” McInnes made the announcement a day after newly revealed police documents suggested that the FBI classifies the Proud Boys as an “extremist group.” Nine members of the group, along with some left-wing anti-fascist protesters, have been charged over an October attack that followed a McInnes speech in New York. Videos of the fight showed a large number of Proud Boys attacking a person on the ground and yelling ****phobic slurs. “I’m told by my legal team and law enforcement that this gesture could help alleviate their sentencing” McInnes said. “Fine. At the very least, this will show jurors they are not dealing with a gang and there’s no head of operations.” McInnes, a Vice co-founder who left the magazine in 2008, created the Proud Boys, their rules and membership tiers, including a fourth degree reserved for Proud Boys who get in a fight “for the cause.” But McInnes, who regularly appears at Proud Boy events and initiations, claimed in the new video that he was never the group’s leader. “There are 10,000 members around the world, and they certainly don’t need me to survive,” he said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/proud-...ar-right-group

[BostonGuy]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...onalism-report

Nope, that's fake news....

.@jason_a_w now that it is confirmed that you spread misinformation on an international level, will your paper issue any corrections or updates in print? https://t.co/bCbOLSxDn4 pic.twitter.com/kjYfaB4CDX

— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 9, 2018