Some three years after the Proud Boys vandalized a historic Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, ripping down and burning a Black Lives Matter sign following a pro-Trump rally, a judge ordered the far-right extremist group to pay the church over $2.8 million in damages for its “hateful and overtly racist conduct.”
But the Proud Boys defaulted on the judgment, and in an attempt to collect, The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan AME sued the Proud Boys for the rights to their name, the notorious organization’s single most valuable asset.