2 Proud Boys Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison Over Gang Assault In New York
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2 Proud Boys Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison Over Gang Assault In New York
Two members of the extremist street gang known as the Proud Boys were sentenced Tuesday to four years in a New York prison after attacking protesters outside a GOP event in Manhattan last year.
Maxwell Hare, 27, and John Kinsman, 32, were two of 10 Proud Boys arrested in the assault caught on camera in October 2018. Prosecutors slapped them with charges of attempted gang assault, attempted assault and rioting, declaring them the most vicious assailants that night. Their four-year sentence will include another five years of supervised release, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office confirmed to HuffPost.
The heavier sentences are a huge blow to the Proud Boys, who have been able to host semi-regular street brawls with few to no consequences in cities outside of New York. In Portland, Oregon, for example, they continue to organize violent fascist rallies despite admitting on camera that they host these events to spur fights, waste city resources and then blame anti-fascist protesters when the dust settles.
“As violent extremism rises in America, a Manhattan jury has declared in one voice that New Yorkers will not tolerate mob violence in our own backyard,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement after the convictions in August.
Justice Mark Dwyer, who presided over the case, also connected the Proud Boys and McInnes, who has repeatedly tried to distance himself from his gang as its members face charges and get involved in scandals related to the violence they commit.
The DA’s office confirmed that Dwyer called the Proud Boys McInnes’ “soldiers” in court, as first reported on Twitter by reporter Ali Winston.
After the sentencing, McInnes doubled down on Telegram, saying the two men were “defending themselves,” and blamed the work of various extremism reporters ― including two at HuffPost ― for their sentences. In reality, McInnes helped arrange their surrender , The New York Times reported.
Eight other Proud Boys were convicted on various charges in connection with the street brawl, including disorderly conduct and riot, and their sentences ranged from five days of community service to 10 months in jail.
The all-male Proud Boys organization — which describes its members as “Western chauvinists” — has been characterized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading white nationalism, misogyny and Islamophobia.
Though they resent the characterization of their ranks as violent, HuffPost revealed in May that the Proud Boys spend months before their rallies plotting optics and tactics to attack protesters and get away without charges.
I'm waiting on the first supporter of these white supremacists to deflect to anti-fa!
Of course someone will.
But it was anti-fa's fault! <SARCASM>
You're not helping your own credibility by linking antifa violence when this seed is clearly about 2 Proud Boys being convicted of gang violence. Are you going to condemn the Proud Boys or just keep reminding us that antifa is a bunch of thugs, too? Because I don't think any of us need to be reminded that antifa is just as bad as the Proud Boys
I don't know why you describe them as white supremacists. I haven't done much research into them but there appears to be more black males in the video in the seed than I have ever seen at an Antifa protest. From what I have heard of the group they are more centered around embracing their male characteristics and not letting society dismiss their natural behavior as "toxic masculinity". I guess it doesn't really matter when I consider who I'm addressing here. For people like you it's :
white supremacist = racist = xenophobe = misogynist = Trump supporter = Republican
This is the narrative sold by progressive news programming and obviously it works on a lot of people.
Because they are.
I don't know what video you're looking at but all I saw were a see of white faces.
And White Supremacists aren't racists? They may not all be misogynists but they are definitely racist.
White supremacy and racism are 2 completely different things. Yes white supremacists are racist but not all racists are white supremacists. Any race can be racist. Therefore white supremacy and racism are not the same thing. The point is, when people who ingest too much CNN see any one of those words, they assume all of them apply. When people hear the word racist, they immediately picture a white Trump supporter. That is racist in my eyes.
It's hard to tell but at :39 the guy looks black to me.
Ok, I'll concede that not all racists are white supremacists
And I don't watch CNN. Don't assume you know people
Not all Trump supporters are white supremacist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic misogynists but virtually every white supremacist, homophobic misogynist xenophobe supports Trump. How could they not when so much of Trumps message has been demonizing and attacking all the people they despise?
"Andrew Anglin, founder of the popular right-wing website The Daily Stormer, heaped praise on Trump. "This is the kind of WHITE NATIONALISM we elected him for," Anglin wrote on his website.
On GoyTalk, a right-wing podcast, the hosts greeted the comments as a return to form on the part of Trump.
"Trump's racist again! He won me over,"one of the hosts said. To which a co-host said, "He'll win me over when he actually strangles her [Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez] on stage."
You don't use common sense. If I was truly a white supremacist, Trump would be my biggest enemy. Why would I support a guy with his head so far up Israel's arse, that it even makes progressives sick? No, if I was a white supremacist I would probably support Elizabeth Warren who hates Israel, and has social policies that look a lot more like Nazi Germany than America does now.
As my link points out:
"While some groups such as patriot militias and religious conservatives have not wavered in their support, more extremist groups such as neo-Nazi organizations have distanced themselves from Trump, angry over his support for Israel and failure to implement tough immigration policies.
"They're glad Trump said it, but they're still mad at him for other things," Squire said. "They're mad at him about Israel because, of course, they're anti-Semitic. They're mad at him about immigration, that he hasn't fulfilled his campaign promises, so they feel let down."
Echoing the white nationalists' mixed feelings toward Trump, Patrick Casey, leader of the white supremacist group the American Identity Movement, tweeted Monday: "My reservations about the administration remain, but Trump escalating his attacks on these four horrid women — women who simply do not belong in America, let alone in our government — is more than a little satisfying."
Mendelson said Casey's tweet encapsulates the changed relationship between white supremacists and Trump.
"The white supremacist movement is by no means monolithic in their views of Trump," Mendelson said. "In 2016, many embraced President Trump as their knight in shining armor, who was essentially carrying the mantle of their white supremacist ideals. But over time, many have been greatly disenchanted with his execution of these ideals, whether it's building the border wall, or whether it's his alliances with Israel and Jews."
Just because they will vote for Trump doesn't mean they "support" him. There are many people who voted for Obama who wouldn't consider themselves Obama supporters. Sounds like white supremacists like it when Trump trolls progressives(as most people do), but they definitely aren't sold on his presidency or him as a leader. It literally boils down to he supports responsible immigration policy, so they will vote for him.
It's far more likely that because he called Mexicans "rapists" and the immigrants coming from South America an "infestation" and "invasion" that white supremacists continue to stick by him even though some disagree with his supposed support for Israel.
It seems these white supremacists (who support the 'president') are promoting violence everywhere and not anti-fa like the usual suspects claim.
"Two members of the extremist street gang known as the Proud Boys were sentenced Tuesday to four years in a New York prison after attacking protesters outside a GOP event in Manhattan last year."
Cool !
According to the FBI and our other security, intelligence and defense resources by far the greatest threat posed to the peace and stability of The United States of America today comes directly from legions of far right wing white supremacists groups who are armed to the teeth and just itching to instigate their long desired race wars. The Proud Boys are merely one element of a much larger coalition of Skin Heads, Aryan Nation, American Nazis, Republicans and other such violently misguided and undesirable race based hate groups...
'Make no mistake, SPLC will continue labeling more and more conservative and Christian groups as hate groups.'
Well the truth is the truth.
Where did you find your source? Not reliable at all or valid.
Don't like his source?
Try these.
Hopefully the SPLC will be sued into non existence. It no longer stands for anything but making money.
Really?
Nawaz won, as he should have.
a 5-4 decision by the Supremes, but the article just slams SPLC over and over for other cases including Nawaz.
an opinion piece about hearsay...the SPLC headqurters "could be" flattened by a hurricane.
This lawsuit was tossed in September 2019
Really? A comedian wanted to join the lawsuit in 2017. That's rich, old, and as noted above, Nwaz won, got his apology and $$.
Case closed. Maher's opinions are worthless.
more "opinion" from 2017 about the already settled Nawaz case.
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