"Local police officers have appeared at times to side with the Proud Boys, especially when they have squared off against leftists openly critical of law enforcement. "via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/03/14/us/…
Oh wow: “After a complaint from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the police department said the officer’s affiliation with the Proud Boys did not violate its policies, in part because it was not considered a white supremacist group”
“If the Proud Boys was not a white male chauvinist club but a Black male chauvinist club, I think that, sadly, we would have seen a different policing posture,” said Ms. Neumann, the former Homeland Security official.
After a Philadelphia rally by Vice President Mike Pence last year, officers at a members-only police union bar mingled inside with about 10 Proud Boys wearing their distinctive regalia. When members of the group confronted journalists...police asked the Proud Boys if they were OK
“he could tell the Portland police despised the counterprotesters but left the fighting to the Proud Boys. The police, he added, were caught “in between doing what’s right and getting in trouble” because they were “entangled in a whole bunch of politically correct things.”
“The Proud Boys attacked the flag burners, but the Metropolitan Police Department instead arrested two of the Communists...The police then escorted the Proud Boys to a nearby bar. Several officers were captured on video exchanging fist bumps with one of the them”
Proud Boys organized an “End Domestic Terrorism” rally in Portland & posted social media messages threatening leftists.
FBI agents pulled them aside but did not ask them to tone down the posts or stay away. Agents warned them of threats against them from antifa activists.
FBI agents pulled them aside but did not ask them to tone down the posts or stay away. Agents warned them of threats against them from antifa activists.
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