Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: Proud Boys Ordered To Pay More Than $1 Million for Racially-Motivated Attack on Historically Black Church
July 03, 2023
July 03, 2023
WASHINGTON, July 3 (TNSgov) -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release on July 1, 2023:
A judge ordered the Proud Boys and several of its leaders to pay more than $1 million for a racially-motivated attack on the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in December 2020. The Superior Court for the District of Columbia held that the defendants engaged in an unlawful conspiracy and violated federal and state civil rights . . .
A judge ordered the Proud Boys and several of its leaders to pay more than $1 million for a racially-motivated attack on the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in December 2020. The Superior Court for the District of Columbia held that the defendants engaged in an unlawful conspiracy and violated federal and state civil rights . . .