Posted on 02/28/2022 8:35:16 AM PST by grundle
Andrew Walls, 26, was slapped with weapons and assault charges after he was seen on video sucker-punching a woman outside a bar in Akron, Ohio.
A chapter leader in the far-right Proud Boys extremist gang was charged with assault Sunday in Akron, Ohio, after he was recorded shouting racial epithets at a black woman and then sucker-punching her in the face.
A man police identified as Andrew Walls, 26, was caught on video outside a bar in the early hours of Sunday, stumbling and scuffling with other patrons while spewing a torrent of racial slurs. His victim, 23-year-old Cameron Morgan, was passing by with a friend when she heard Walls and others around him screaming “Fucking n*****s.”
She later told her father that she confronted Walls after realizing she was the only Black person around.
“We were like … ‘You can’t say that. That’s not OK,’” she told her dad, local teacher and former sportswriter David Lee Morgan Jr., who recorded the conversation and provided a transcript to HuffPost.
Video taken by Cameron Morgan’s friend shows what happened next: Walls squares up, points his finger at Morgan, and repeats the racist slur, adding: “Bitch, shut your mouth.” He then cocks his right fist and punches her directly in the face, the impact of which releases a blood-curdling pop.
Morgan was treated for a concussion.
WARNING: The video below contains graphic violence and racist language.
https://twitter.com/DavidLeeMorgan/status/1497948024265482245
Walls kept going after the recording ended, and dragged Cameron into the street by her hair, her father said. She was shaken up, he said, and left the scene without initially calling police.
But once the video began to make the rounds on social media Sunday, activists quickly identified the assailant as Walls. They also unearthed a previous story about him in the local Akron Beacon Journal, which identified him as the vice president of the Akron-Canton chapter of the Proud Boys.
https://twitter.com/Venusisaband/status/1497979487664971793
Though Walls wasn’t wearing his Proud Boys uniform — a black and yellow Fred Perry polo — during the assault, his membership in the gang suggests a predisposition for violence and bigotry. The Proud Boys, designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and a terrorist organization by Canada, have close ties to white supremacist groups and other extremists, and violence is literally written into their rules. (The gang’s highest rank, known as the Fourth Degree, is given only to members who commit a significant act of violence “for the cause.”)
Walls’ chapter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reached by phone Sunday, David Morgan’s voice trembled as he recalled waking up to see a video on his phone of his daughter being assaulted.
“Soon as we saw it, I was in tears,” he said. “I just cried, because, I just watched somebody punch my daughter, who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Morgan said his daughter went to an urgent care clinic and was treated for a concussion after she saw stars and blacked out. Her face swelled up temporarily, to the point where she couldn’t move her jaw. “She couldn’t really open up her mouth to eat,” he said.
Walls was charged with possessing a firearm while intoxicated and assault, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The severity of Cameron’s injuries may lead to his assault charge being upgraded to a felony, the Akron Beacon Journal reports. Akron police are also considering an added ethnic intimidation charge. David Morgan said the revelation of Walls’ Proud Boys affiliation changed everything for him. He said he was aware of the gang and the national tour of political violence they’d been on since their founding in 2016, but he “never thought it would hit home until today.”
“This changes a lot for me, in the sense that, I want to get involved now,” he said. “This happening was time for me to wake the hell up. And I hate that my daughter had to suffer that for me to wake the hell up.”
That’s all we need, some idiot gives the left more “conservatives are racists” talking points.
MEMO: Confronting profanity spewing drunkards as they stumble out of a bar never ends well.
While I certainly don’t approve of the drunken idiot I’m reserving the right to mock the fool who thought that her righteous social justice warrior street cred was going to protect her as she swung into action.
Next time, just call the police.
The “Proud Boys.”
Sounds like agent provocateurs. Feds.
Reminds me of Ray Epps.
Ashlee Babbitt did the same thing for us. She was no hero.
Yeah he was a real a—hole. But then too, she should know now that, it never pays to argue with a drunk.
I’ve never heard of Andrew Walls but this isn’t inline with Proud Boys ideals but is going to be used to smear all of them. Every single media outlet seems to be be doing a report on it...far and wide.
It’s very hard for patriots to form organizations without infiltrators or bad apples being used to spoil any positive format they may have.
“Ashlee Babbitt did the same thing for us. She was no hero.”
I begrudgingly agree. It was a mob of damned fools who entered the Capitol on January 6th. Each and every one of them knew this was wrong even if the Capitol police invited them in.
Wow. Did you see all those other white racist supremacists come to her rescue and beat the crap out of Walls?
So all you people believe what you read in the Huffington Puffington Post? ...very sad..
I’ve said that many times having visited the Capitol and WH back in 2017 the first year Trump was in office.
We had to make reservations days ahead of time, and go through several checkpoints, more rigorous than TSA airline protocols.
Either these folks were idiots or impostors.
What are “proud boys” proud of?
Being snitches and agitators.
That’s all we need, some idiot gives the left more “conservatives are racists” talking points.
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They’ve been calling us racists for 20 plus years without any evidence at all-—the media will do and say what they want. I really don’t give a crap what they report. The truth is for every stupid act like this of someone on the “right” there’s 99 acts like this on the left.
The Proud Boys do for us what the Hell’s Angels did for the Stones at Altamont.
The media looves incidents like this. They will add this idiot’s face to the faces of ‘Trump supporters’.
Probably until they begin imposing an internal discipline that makes even the best-trained infiltrators cringe.
So she was a villain to you
No, the video speaks for itself and I’ve seen plenty of belligerent drunks before. In general it’s best to wait for them to fall down before intervening or else go right in and put their lights out.
But I’m 6’6” tall and 280lbs saying that. The little girl in this video was foolish in doing what she did and should be grateful that a split lip is all she got out of this.
Oh, and hopefully she learned a valuable life lesson that the theories she learned in her college classes do not apply to the realities of a street fight.
Wow, seems like the Huff Post told a bunch of their readers to go to Free Republic and comment on this article.
Pardon, I see you meant Ashlee Babbitt.
Forgive me, but she like all the rest were foolish to enter a secure area even if the Capitol police invited them in. It was clearly a trap.
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