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October 15, 2018

New York: White Supremacists Unleash Violence on Manhattan Street
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In New York City, members of the white supremacist group known as the
Proud Boys violently attacked people on a Manhattan street Friday night,
after attending a talk by the group's founder Gavin Mc Innes at the
Metropolitan Republican Club. In video captured of the incident, dozens
of members of the extremist group can be seen kicking and punching
anti-fascist protesters while shouting homophobic expletives.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo blamed Trump and Republicans for the
violence, calling it part of an effort to "fire up their base" for the
midterm elections. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Proud
Boys as a hate group, and some of its members joined in the deadly Unite
the Right rally in Charlottesville last August.


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