Proud Boys Are Still Violent, Despite Legal Woes

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Cassie Miller
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I wrote about what happened this weekend in Portland, and how the Proud Boys – despite many setbacks – have continued to organize and found new ways to gain traction. Namely, spreading the narrative that they're out to avenge the 1/6 "political prisoners"

Proud Boys Are Still Violent, Despite Legal Woes
Right-wing protesters, including members of the Proud Boys, staged another in a long-running series of confrontational demonstrations­­ in Portland, Oregon, a city far-right extremists target often
splcenter.org
8:26 AM · Aug 26, 2021

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/08/25/proud-boys-are-still-violent-despite-legal-woes

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Right-wing extremists bring violence to Portland once again

Sunday’s rally marked the one-year anniversary of a similar clash at a “Back the Blue” rally, where right-wing activists and counterprotesters fought in the street outside the Multnomah County Justice Center. Far-right demonstrators carried bats and metal rods, fired paintball guns and used pepper spray, while one Proud Boy pointed a handgun at the opposing side.

The 2020 rally came after months of nationwide protests against police brutality in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, protests the far right believed should be violently suppressed by the state, armed vigilantes and organized fascist street gangs such as the Proud Boys.

This most recent rally was marred by the same aggressive tactics the group has exhibited for years, often in the streets of Portland. Though its promoters claimed the rally was about “spreading LOVE not HATE,” Proud Boys and others mixed violent rhetoric with fantasies of martyrdom in statements they made to the press in the midst of the skirmishes. “I’m sick and tired and if we have to die to defend ourself, our families, and our fucking freedom in America, we’re gonna do it. We’re gonna lay our lives down,” Tusitala “Tiny” Toese said on footage captured by independent journalistic outlet News2Share. Toese was released from prison in December 2020, where he was serving time for violating his probation that stemmed from a 2018 assault.

One man with his face covered yelled, “You fucked around you found out today, baby!” – a menacing slogan popularized by the Proud Boys. Toese responded: “That’s our message to you, antifa. The Americans are coming out and we’re sick and tired of this shit. And if we have to fight fire with fire we’re gonna fucking do it.”

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[Ferryboat]

1. Seems like the Proud boys

Are clearly stating they are going to escalate their already violent behavior. Both sides are now brandishing firearms.

Once the shooting starts its game on for those knuckleheads on both sides.

The police in Portland already favor the PBs so no help can be expected in diffusing tensions.

Portland may be the place where armed civil conflict starts.

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2. Someone's bankrolling these losers

They move around quite freely, unconstrained by court orders or costs, always ready to lay their lives down, but somehow never even getting arrested for their thuggery. Almost as if the cops are in on it, too. I'm sure Dennis Anderson was really surprised when the group of "antifa" people he started taking potshots at fired back at him on Sunday.