FBI Officially Considers Proud Boys A White Nationalist-Linked ‘Extremist Group’

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 10: The alt-right leader and former co-founder of Vice Magazine Gavin McInnes attends an Act for America rally to protest sharia law on June 10, 2017 in Foley Square in New York City. Members of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, right wing Trump supporting groups that are willing to directly confront and engage left-wing anti-Trump protestors, attended the event. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 10: The alt-right leader and former co-founder of Vice Magazine Gavin McInnes attends an Act for America rally to protest sharia law on June 10, 2017 in Foley Square in New York City. Members of t... NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 10: The alt-right leader and former co-founder of Vice Magazine Gavin McInnes attends an Act for America rally to protest sharia law on June 10, 2017 in Foley Square in New York City. Members of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, right wing Trump supporting groups that are willing to directly confront and engage left-wing anti-Trump protestors, attended the event. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The FBI officially considers the Proud Boys an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism.”

That classification was revealed in an August Washington state law enforcement document obtained by transparency non-profit Property of the People and first reported by The Guardian on Monday.

Per the Clark County Sheriff’s Office memo, “The FBI has warned local law enforcement agencies that the Proud Boys are actively recruiting in the Pacific Northwest and that some in the group have contributed to the recent escalation of violence at political rallies held on college campuses, and in cities like Charlottesville, Virginia, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.”

Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes has insisted since the group’s creation in 2016 that his “western chauvinist” organization is just a men’s club focused on drinking beer and protesting excessive political correctness. But the group’s members have been arrested for assault after brawling with anti-racist protesters in cities from New York to Portland, Oregon.

The New York Police Department opened a criminal probe into the group in October after members engaged in a chaotic street fight with protesters outside a Manhattan Republican club where McInnes gave a speech.

The FBI’s designation of the Proud Boys as an extremist group was revealed in a report on the dismissal of former Clark County probationary deputy Erin Willey. According to the document, Willey was fired after local press obtained a photo of her wearing a sweatshirt of the “Proud Boys Girls”—the female division of the male-only group.

Clark County’s internal investigation revealed that Willey was an active member of the group between Nov. 2016 and Oct. 2017, that she sold merchandise on their behalf, and that she did not disclose this information during the hiring process.

The document concludes that Willey could not be trusted to carry out her oath of office given her membership in a group that “openly discriminates against people of the Muslim faith and Jewish faith,” “openly discriminates against people of different national origins and ethnicity,” “openly advocates the overthrow of the federal government,” and “promotes misogynistic rhetoric and beliefs that many women find offensive.”

Willey told the sheriff’s office that she believes the photo was leaked by her former boyfriend, Proud Boy member Graham Jorgensen, in retaliation for ending their relationship, and that Jorgensen engaged in a history of physical and verbal abuse towards her.

Read the full document below.

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  1. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    FBI Officially Considers Proud Boys A White Nationalist-Linked ‘Extremist Group’

    What kept you? We knew that long ago?

  2. “Willey was fired after local press obtained a photo of her wearing a
    sweatshirt of the “Proud Boys Girls”—the female division of the
    male-only group.”

    this is the uphill struggle feminism faces. When would you ever see an Asian-Americans or African-Americans wearing a t-shirt saying “Let’s hand all power over to the Whites”?

  3. Well, there’s that one guy who shows up at all the Trump rallies in Florida, but yeah, point taken.

  4. FBI Officially Considers Mr Professional Dickhead`s Proud Toddlers A White Nationalist-Linked ‘Extremist Group’

  5. Regardless of who leaked the photo or why, who was wearing the shirt? That seems to me to be the point.

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