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Sometimes accompanied by skinheads, neo-Nazis, modern confederates and outfits like Oath Guardians, an association of police officers and veterans, the Proud Boy fought left at rallies May 1st demonstrations and marches to support President Trump.
While the Proud Boys accept members of the minority, they have sometimes associated themselves with openly racist organizations. Jason Kessler, who has already attended the Proud Boy meetings in Virginia, organized the violent rallies held in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, which attracted neo-Nazi groups.
A former Proud Boy, Rich Black, was one of the organizers of two violent rallies in Berkeley in 2017, attended by white supremacist groups.
Mr. McInnes did not go to Charlottesville and explicitly forbade the Proud Boys to attend. "To be clear, all white / anti-Semitic nationalists are banned from Proud Boys even if they never address these topics," he wrote in an article published shortly after the violence in Virginia.
And yet, among those who attended his event on Friday night were some suspected members of a local skinhead group, the 211 Boot Boys, and the founder of a label called United Riot that publishes group albums. skinhead local punks. Last year, United Riot staged a fundraiser in favor of Andrew Kuklis, a member of the 211 Long Island Boot Boys, who was arrested in January 2017 for firearm indictment.
In an SMS sent on Monday, Mr. McInnes denied having links with the 211 Boot Boys stating, "I do not represent them and I do not know who they are and what they stand for."
He also said Monday in his show "Get Off My Lawn" on the CRTV broadcast network that he did not understand why the Proud Boys had been blamed for last week's riots when Antifa sparked the conflict. Metropolitan Republican Club and vandalize its property.
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