Police Have Made Their First Arrest Of A Member Of The Far-Right Men's Group That Beat Up Protesters

[workinclasszero]

Geoffrey Young, 38, of New City, New York, was arrested at his home Thursday night on charges of riot and attempted assault.

Julia Reinstein BuzzFeed News Reporter Mary Ann Georgantopoulos BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on October 19, 2018, at 2:03 p.m. ET Posted on October 18, 2018, at 10:36 p.m. ET

A member of the Proud Boys, the far-right men's organization that assaulted left-wing protesters after a Republican event last week in Manhattan, was arrested Thursday for the brawl, the New York Police Department said.

Geoffrey Young, 38, of New City, New York, was arrested at his home Thursday night on charges of riot and attempted assault, police told BuzzFeed News. He was the first member of the group arrested in connection with the violence. A second unidentified individual was taken into custody on Friday, officials said.

The incident occurred October 12 following an event at the Metropolitan Republican Club, which advertised that Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes would reenact the samurai sword assassination of Japanese socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma.

“Banned from Twitter — this Godfather of the Hipster Movement has taken on and exposed the Deep State Socialists and stood up for Western Values,” the club said in an advertisement for the event on its Facebook page.

McInnes, who was also a cofounder of Vice Media, was suspended from Twitter in August, along with the group’s main account, @ProudBoysUSA, for violating its policy on “violent extremist groups.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/police-have-arrested-their-first-member-of-the-far-right

[dalton99a]

1. A 38-year-old boy

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. but he's Young and proud

WTH is a "Deep State Socialist", anway?

These boys deserve some public shaming on their way to detention hall. Might discourage other boys from violent acts of crime.

[joshcryer]

9. Just buzzwords.

[czarjak]

3. And damned proud, too...

[RoBear]

11. proud...

of their li'l mushrooms???

[iluvtennis]

13. I think it's "boy" in the context of the southern "Good ole boy" descriptor.

[Solly Mack]

4. Idiots

Stupid, self-hating idiots.

If they had an ounce of substance, a smidgen of self-respect, they wouldn't have to seek out other losers to feel good about themselves.

If all you have is "white pride" then you're nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[Bfd]

5. K & R " If all you have is "white pride" then you're nothing. Absolutely nothing."

Thanks for simplifying the matter.

[Solly Mack]

12. It's all they have - white, pinkish skin.

So they cling to it like it means something.

[VOX]

6. An evil Peter Pan syndrome: some racist middle-aged men want to be known as boys. Proud ones, yet.

Well FUCK THEM and their juvenile racist, sexist, xenophobic beliefs. This is the goddamned 21st Century, for Christ’s sake, grow the fuck up and be decent human beings— who actually contribute something positive to this sorry world.

Sorry for the rant, but these anti-democracy assholes need to be called out. If they insist on being “boys,” I’m willing to drop my “no corporeal punishment” stance, pick up a cricket bat, and turn their lily-white asses fire-engine red.

[lunasun]

7. Let's not bullshit men's right my ass

Their disavowals of bigotry are belied by their actions: rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists. They are known for anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric. Proud Boys have appeared alongside other hate groups at extremist gatherings like the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. Indeed, former Proud Boys member Jason Kessler helped to organize the event, which brought together Klansmen, antisemites, Southern racists, and militias. Kessler was only “expelled” from the group after the violence and near-universal condemnation of the Charlottesville rally-goers.

Other hardcore members of the so-called "alt-right" have argued that the “western chauvinist” label is just a “PR cuck term” McInnes crafted to gain mainstream acceptance
. “Let’s not bullshit,” Brian Brathovd, aka Caeralus Rex, told his co-hosts on the antisemitic The Daily Shoah — one of the most popular alt-right podcasts. If the Proud Boys “were pressed on the issue, I guarantee you that like 90% of them would tell you something along the lines of ‘Hitler was right. Gas the Jews.’”
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys

[hibbing]

8. "far right"

Always with the far right, white nationalists and other names. I would prefer they be identified as Nazis or Neo Nazis.

Another thing, 38 years old, really?


Peace

[ProudLib72]

10. 38 is still a "boy" in their book

And they want to make damned sure girls are excluded from their little club. You have to wonder about that logic since no girls ever expressed any interest in joining their club, but it's there to discourage any future involvement anyway.

[GulfCoast66]

14. It is easy to tell their goals. They sometimes admit them.

They desperately want to be Trumps Brownshirts.

But they do not understand. The Brownshirts, evil as the became, were composed of veterans of the slaughter of the Trench Warfare of WWI. They knew killing and butchery and had amazing discipline they learned in the war.

These boys are just punks and lack everything that made the Brownshirts so dangerous.

How often do we see them whining after they are outed and lose their jobs.

[vercetti2021]

15. Boy?

No he's a fucking man child like his beloved orange shit stain. Hope he doesn't drop the soap in the shower. Sorry if that seems a bit extreme, but for his sake...

[BumRushDaShow]

16. "arrested Thursday for the brawl"

It wasn't a "brawl". It was them viciously attacking protestors.