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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Justin Rohrlich

Exclusive: Proud Boys defy court order and keep using their name despite owing $3 million to Black church that owns it

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.

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