NYPD Arrests First Far-Right, Pro-Trump Protester In Connection With Recent New York Brawl
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Source: Think Progress
By Addy Baird, 10:03 am.
The only people originally arrested after the violent altercation last week were counter-protesters. The New York Police Department announced Thursday night they had made their first arrest of one of the Proud Boys, a violent, pro-Trump street gang that attacked several protesters in New York last week.
Geoffery Young, 38, was arrested at his home around 7:00 p.m. Thursday on charges of riot and attempted assault, according to The Daily Beast. He had previously appeared in a Proud Boys video saying he believes "terrorists" have correctly interpreted the Quran.
In the video, as Daily Beast noted Thursday, Young said he believes European countries would become Islamic and "it's going to be something like World War II times ten."
The arrest comes nearly a week after the Proud Boys leader and founder Gavin McInnes spoke at the Metropolitan Republican Club in New York. Following the speech, the NYPD led McInnes and a group of about 60 Proud Boys out of the club, trying to keep them away from protesters who had gathered outside. A group of McInnes' followers broke away from the police escort and charged a group of antifascist protesters. -More...
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In just the past month, the Proud Boys have been involved in violent incidents in New York, Oregon and Rhode Island.
The Proud Boys are a national street gang with Republican connections. One member planned the Charlottesville rally which group members attended last summer. The group has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Proud Boys consists of a multi-racial membership that is based on beliefs in religious hatred, bitter misogyny and Trump-ism.
Earlier this week the SPLC reported that in addition to the Proud Boys, at least two people who took part in the violence were members of a far-right skinhead gang called 211 Bootboys, and another, one of the NYPD's persons of interest, was part of a Latino skinhead group called Battalion 49.
McInnes has previously encouraged violence among his followers and said that "fighting solves everything."
The NYPD arrested one of the Proud Boys Thursday night in connection with a recent violent brawl in New York.
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A man prosecutors call the most violent of the rioters outside a speech by the founder of the racist Proud Boys group was busted Friday on charges of felony assault, felony attempted gang assault, and rioting.
John Kinsman, a 39-year-old _______, N.J. resident, was ordered held on $25,000 bond or $15,000 cash bail at arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.
"This defendant was the most vicious of all the attackers," said Manhattan Assistant District Attorney John Steinglass.
Based on the photo in the article, it's the proud bearded fellow in the MAGA hat/glasses in the center below. The guy referenced in the OP article resembles the more neatly bearded full-of-pride guy on the lower right.
