Infamously, the Proud Boys sparked a street brawl with leftists on the streets of Midtown Manhattan after McInnes spoke at the Metropolitan Republican Club in 2018. We are not an extremist group and we do not have ties with white nationalists,” McInnes wrote in a statement at the time. At the very least, this will show jurors they are not dealing with a gang and there is no head of operations.
“I’m told by my legal team and law enforcement that this gesture could help alleviate their sentencing. McInnes c laimed to have quit the group after a number of members were arrested following the brawl in Manhattan.
Seemingly countless businesses and careers have been ‘destroyed’ by this group,” he added. It’s not just my circle of conservative Christians. “The pro-Trump men’s club I started, the Proud Boys, have been rounded up and arrested facing serious felonies for daring to defend themselves against the radical left. “My family has been attacked and so have my friends,” he wrote in a post decrying the SPLC’s hate group designation of the Proud Boys. McInnes lives in Westchester County and has whined in a statement about the treatment he’s received since founding the Proud Boys. He’s drawn criticism for a number of his statements, including a condemnation by Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs for a YouTube video he uploaded in 2017 called “10 Things I Hate About Jews,” in which he said Israelis were “obsessed with the Holocaust.” He’s since turned to podcasting to promote his conservative ideology and has appeared on the hugely popular Joe Rogan podcast. Gavin McInnes rose to fame as co-founder of VICE Media alongside fellow Canadian Shane Smith in the 1990s. The group claims they are not a racist organization, but the Southern Poverty Law Center considers them a “general hate” extremist group that espouses misogynistic, anti-Muslim and homophobic rhetoric. To join, recruits have to take an oath declaring they are “a proud Western chauvinist” and refuse to apologize for “creating the modern world.” After its founding, new members were also barred from masturbating more than once a month, according to the group’s bylaws. We have ‘boys’ in our name, but like Bill the Butcher and the Bowery Boys, we will assassinate you,” McInnes said in one of his radio appearances. “We will kill you, that’s the Proud Boys in a nutshell. In a number of radio broadcasts, McInnes has advocated for Trump supporters to commit acts of violence against rivals and said members of the Proud Boys would do so. The gang-like extremist group was founded in the lead-up to the Trump 2016 presidential victory. The group’s Seattle chapter quickly adopted the president’s comment as part of their motto, according to one screenshot, which shows an image of the words “Stand Back” and “Stand By” surrounding the gang’s crest. “Trump basically said to go f–k them up! this makes me so happy,” one of the members wrote in a chat on the app Telegram, according to screenshots posted online. Members of the gang immediately celebrated Trump’s comment Tuesday night in encrypted messaging chats they use to communicate with one another. How did the Proud Boys react to Trump’s ‘stand by’ comment? While the group has been active since at least 2016, it has come to the fore amid clashes over racism and policing that have gripped the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death this year.
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