3 busted in brawl outside event for ‘Proud Boys’ leader
By Amanda Woods and Olivia Bensimon
October 13, 2018
Three people protesting a speech by right-wing provocateur
Gavin McInnes on the Upper East Side were
busted Friday after brawls broke out on neighboring sidewalks, cops said.
The violence started after about 80 protesters gathered outside the
Metropolitan Republican Club at Third Avenue and East 83th Street, where McInnes was speaking, police said.
McInnes, a
co-founder of Vice Media, heads a right-wing group called the
Proud Boys, which has been
characterized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and is a since-departed co-founder of Vice Media. The club was vandalized before McInnes’ appearance.
As the audience left at around 8:15 p.m., cops say, three protesters followed a man who broke into a run as he left the building.
The man dropped his backpack, and when he tried to pick it up, a protester punched him and took his property, cops said.
Finbarr Slonim, 20, and
Caleb Perkins, 35, both of the Upper East Side, and
Kai Russo, 20, from Bushwick, have been freed without bail on charges of felony burglary and misdemeanor assault.
“We vigorously dispute the allegations,” said
their lawyer, Moira Meltzer Cohen.
There were no other arrests as of Saturday night, according to police.
Some social media users claim the Proud Boys were the aggressors...
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