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Upper East Side, Manhattan (WABC) –
Three men were arrested after a fight broke out following an event that took place Saturday morning at the Metropolitan Republican Club of New York, in the Upper East Side.
According to police, Finbarr Slonim, 20, of Manhattan, Kai Russo, 20, Brooklyn and Caleb Perkins, 35, of Manhattan, have all been charged with theft and assault.
The fight allegedly involved members of the far right Proud Boys group. Gavin McInnes, the group's founder, apparently participated in an event at the club.
The documentary filmmaker Sandi Bachom, who recorded the altercation, wrote in a caption: "We followed Proud Boys after the Gavin McInnis Republican Club event.A police escort took them down Park Ave, then a small group refused their MAGA hats and this has happened. "
According to the AP, the Proud Boys describe themselves as "Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for having created the modern world". His website lists eight ways to "save America". Among them: "Give everyone a gun", venerate the housewife, "close the government".
The Metropolitan Republican Club also made headlines earlier this week after an unknown vandal broke its windows, sprayed its doors and left a threatening message to Republicans that "the attack only makes to start".
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