Posted on 08/19/2019 7:43:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Two members of the Proud Boys were convicted on Monday for defending themselves against a violent Antifa attack in New York last year. John Kinsman and Maxwell Hare were two of 10 Proud Boys who were charged after being jumped by members of the far-left, terrorist group in October 2018. The men were exiting from a talk by the founder and former leader of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, when they were immediately attacked, unprovoked, by the thugs, who were protesting the event at the Metropolitan Republican Club.
The Antifa members refused to co-operate with the authorities during the trial, and were referred to by nicknames like Ponytail and Shaved Head in an indictment. Prosecutors described McInnes as a hatemonger, and that the Proud Boys supposed attack on Antifa was vicious, disproportionate and most important, unnecessary. Jack Goldberg, Kinsmans lawyer, argued during the trial that Antifa and the prosecutors were in cahoots:
These people arent the New York County district attorneys office. They are the New York County district Antifa office.
Despite the entire brawl being caught on CCTV and cell phones, Hare and Kinsman were found guilty of attempted gang assault, riot, and attepted assault. All but 1 who is to be tried sometime in the future were convicted.
McInnes reacted to the news in a public statement:
And the verdict is
GUILTY. The message from the state here is either sit and take a beating or go to prison.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalfile.com ...
Did I hit a nerve with you people again?
You are misinformed. The Proud Boys are true blue conservative Trump supporters. They love America, the flag, the idea that marriage is between a man and a woman. I know this because my son is a Proud Boy and a friend of Mcinnis and was in the middle of the chaos defending his brothers in this New York incident.
After he got fired from Vice, he became a strong American patriot, though he is Canadien.
And he remains so. He is a freedom of speech warrior, founded the Proudboys, then left them after they were branded alt-right and racist (which they're not).
I really don't know where you got the left wing thing.
I fell for it in 1980 when they kept showing on national news their staged gunfight between the Klan and the communists.
Meanwhile, we’re supposed to believe the Klan = rednecks = people voting for Ronald Reagan.
Not falling for it this time!
Okay, I’m listening.
You did.
Ignorant people give me the skeevies.
I suggest someone track down and read the court transcripts, and found these cell phone videos that purportedly showed the attack.
It’s a troublesome story, but it’s just a story until it’s corroborated.
The term “alt right” has been nonsensical ever since the cia invented it for stupid their little anti-American games.
What about the other nerve I hit?
Uh oh...you’re being passive aggressive again. Didn’t I get through to you the first time about that?
Let it be your last.
Take Wikipedia in small doses and not as a single source.
And learn to discern truth from fiction.
You'll do much better that way.
Is he the father of the new green deal too?
Wikipedia and SPLC, ROFL
Yea, your dime store psycho-babble bounced off me like bullets off superman.
Hate to tell ya.
Meanwhile, McInnis really was “the father of the hipsters,” and the hipsters really were leftist environmental pacifists.
No.
I encourage you to study up on Gavin McGinnis.
He's a very interesting, brilliant, and funny dude.
Kinda like me.
And after you're done, you won't sound so....dull.
Ok, I see, so you're not just misinformed. . .you're just an idiot. . .got it. . .never mind.
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