Proud Boys stick to their formula in L.A.: Latch on to local right-wing causes, then bring violence

[Nevilledog]

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David Neiwert
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I think we can say with confidence that this is the Proud Boys' strategy for the foreseeable future: Embed within local right-wing movements, since they offer both camouflage and potential recruits. So normalized you become invisible to the local press.

Proud Boys stick to their formula in L.A.: Latch on to local right-wing causes, then bring violence
Anyone hoping the Proud Boys might shrivel up and crawl away after Jan. 6—when leading members ended up in jail for their roles in the Capitol insurrection in Washington—will be dismayed by the re...
dailykos.com
1:30 PM · Aug 16, 2021

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/16/2046258/-Proud-Boys-stick-to-their-formula-in-L-A-Latch-on-to-local-right-wing-causes-then-bring-violence

Once again following their post-insurrection strategy of attaching themselves to local right-wing causes—ranging from “critical race theory” to abortion to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions—a group of Proud Boys showed up at an anti-masking/anti-vaccination protest in downtown Los Angeles and assaulted counterprotesters and journalists at the scene. One man was hospitalized after being stabbed by a masked Proud Boy multiple times.

Not that you would have known any of this from local news coverage of the violence or from the Los Angeles Police Department. The Los Angeles Times report describes the anti-vaccination protest and the mayhem surrounding it, but there is no mention of Proud Boys’ presence in it. Likewise, an LAPD statement about the violence mentions “Antifa” while only describing the thugs who attacked them as people “gathered for the permitted event.”

Videos and photos posted on social media by activists and journalists left no doubt, however. The men who are seen attacking journalists covering the rally, and then engaging in random mass brawling with antifa counterprotesters, were well-known Proud Boys who have engaged in violence at previous far-right events.

Among these characters is far-right activist Tony Moon, who was seen both attacking journalist Tina Berg and coordinating attacks on other journalists at the scene, and then later screaming at journalists: “Unmask them!” Moon is a veteran of Proud Boys violence; he was present at the insurrection on Jan. 6 and filmed himself on the Capitol steps, and also participated in far-right protests at WiSpa in Los Angeles two weeks ago, attacking a woman with a metal water bottle, which appears to be his weapon of choice.

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[magicarpet]

1. A Fascist Fun-fest,...

Ten Nazis against one Anti-fa,..

Kick,.. Punch,.. Stab.

[Initech]

2. Proud Boys are the American Taliban.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. And then afterwards, go after everyone of these thugs like the ones on 1/6/21, and prosecute

everyone of them to the fullest extent of the law...