The racist Proud Boys militia group has misplaced management of its trademarked identify following a federal choose’s determination, ensuing within the group being prohibited from promoting merchandise with its identify or emblem with out consent from Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a Black church.
The humiliating determination is a results of a default judgement from a 2020 assault in opposition to the church following a pro-Trump rally, throughout which Proud Boys members destroyed a “Black Lives Matter” signal posted in entrance of the church.
The group declined to show over the $2.8 million that they owed the church following that assault, so the confiscation of the Proud Boys trademark was ordered by Decide Tanya M. Jones Bosier, who described the group as “hateful and overtly racist” in her determination.
Proud Boys chief, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, whined concerning the courtroom’s determination, calling it a “betrayal of justice.”
“I hold in contempt any motions, judgments, and orders issued against me,” he advised The New York Instances.
Rioters, together with Proud Boys members, through the Jan. 6, 2020, revolt on the U.S. Capitol.
Tarrio was lately launched from jail following President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon for everybody who attacked the Capitol through the Jan. 6, 2021, revolt. Tarrio was probably the most high-profile offender and had been convicted of seditious conspiracy in opposition to the USA as a part of his plot to overturn the 2020 election leads to Trump’s favor.
Trump has lengthy been tied to the racist group by way of their shared right-wing extremist ideology, and he infamously directed the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” throughout his 2020 presidential debate with former President Joe Biden, who condemned the group and different types of extremism.
“The people who did this, they need to feel the heat, they need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted,” he advised conspiracy theorist and fellow Trump ally Alex Jones.
Whereas the menace is ominous, the Proud Boys have to maneuver ahead with the data {that a} Black church is now accountable for the group’s model—empowering the identical individuals it has fought to repress for years.
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