Police Shrugged Off the Proud Boys, Until They Attacked the Capitol (free version of NYT story)

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https://news.yahoo.com/police-shrugged-off-proud-boys-165700682.html

David D. Kirkpatrick and Alan Feuer
Sun, March 14, 2021, 9:57 AM·9 min read

A protester was burning an American flag outside the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland when Joseph Biggs rushed to attack. Jumping a police line, he ripped the man’s shirt off and “started pounding,” he boasted that night in an online video.

But police charged the flag burner with assaulting Biggs. The city later paid $225,000 to settle accusations that police had falsified their reports out of sympathy with Biggs, who went on to become a leader of the far-right Proud Boys.

Two years later, in Portland, Oregon, a Proud Boy named Ethan Nordean was caught on video pushing his way through a crowd of counterprotesters, punching one of them, then slamming him to the ground, unconscious. Once again, police charged only the other man in the skirmish, accusing him of swinging a baton at Nordean.

Now Biggs, 37, and Nordean, 30, are major targets in a federal investigation. They face some of the most serious charges stemming from the attack on the U.S. Capitol in January: leading a mob of about 100 Proud Boys in a coordinated plan to disrupt the certification of former President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat.

. . . more. Worth a read and a share. https://news.yahoo.com/police-shrugged-off-proud-boys-165700682.html

[UpInArms]

1. I want to know why these people were

Not arrested as they went out the door


A line of people exit the Capitol building. One bloodied in the head and more came out who previously stormed the building.

Link to tweet

[catrose]

4. Yes

[Marcuse]

2. "So we don't look like we are playing favorites."

Link to tweet

[RockRaven]

3. Police ARE the proud boys, police JOINED the proud boys.

Fuck you Yahoo News, don't try to sell me this "shrugged off" shit.