Proud Boys enjoyed a hands-off existence from the mainstream for the past two years – ending with this one. 

NEW YORK, NY – When it was announced that Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was invited to speak at the Metropolitan Republican Club, many expressed outrage that the club would invite the head of a violent neo-Fascist group to speak at an event Friday evening. But despite the regular and open defense of violence from McInnes and the Proud Boys, the club still felt safe hosting him. That’s likely because he and his group blanket such pronouncements with an equal amount of subterfuge, lies and spins. Instead of noting things such as how the Proud Boys represented in both “Unite the Right” rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia and Washington, DC that were organized by onetime Proud Boy Jason Kessler, and the random acts of violence that has seen arrests for their members, McInnes is simply seen as the founder of Vice Magazine and former Fox News personality that has his own program on Mark Levin’s CRTV, while the Proud Boys are referred to in the media as an ultraconservative group while presidential advisor Roger Stone is seen regularly with them and has even used them as his security at events.

McInnes’ Republican Club appearance on Friday might have changed all that with a fight where the Proud Boys attacked protesters while using homophobic slurs, prompting long-silent media outlets, elected officials and law enforcement to speak out against the group and their actions as well as admonish the club’s invitation extended to McInnes. McInnes, was referred to in a Daily News article today as a “hipster guru” and later a “hipster leader”, where he defended the Proud Boys actions by painting antifa as the real aggressors, demanded New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was among those who denounce the Proud Boys and called for the State Police Hate Crimes Unit to look into the fight, to instead investigate “the biggest spin that I’ve ever seen in the media,” and said he was simply having fun and lampooning antifa as he was on stage reenacting the 1960 assassination of Japanese socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma by ultra-nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi.

Despite McInnes’ declaration, more arrests beyond the three that were arrested at the scene are expected, and will involve at least nine persons from within the Proud Boys, none of whom were arrested on Friday. That also might include members of the neo-Fascist street gang 211 Bootboys, who joined the Proud Boys in the attack, and have a history of promoting neo-Nazi activities, despite many of their members being of color or Jewish. Dennis “Fed Up” Davilla, an associate of the 211 Bootboys that was a participant in the fight, was the primary organizer of the “NYC Oi! Fest” which brought White Power Bands to perform in the city. The group has also been implicated in an attack on two twin brothers at a local bar when it was noticed one had an antifa decal on their phone. Only one member was arrested and prosecuted in that attack.

Meanwhile antifa has gone on the offensive with the hashtag #DoxxAllYourBoys to identify those who participated in the rally that they found in pictures. Among them includes Davilla, Maxwell Hare who was seen in Providence at a rally there last weekend, and Joe “Bola” whose real name is Joseph John Dellapina and is a native of Atlanta, Georgia who moved to New York several years ago.

Let’s have some fun & play #DoxxAllYourBoys shall we? Here are most of the Proud Boys who posed for a group pic after mob beating 3 people while yelling homophobic slurs. They’d just come from Gavin’s murder reenactment. Check out this archive for details. https://t.co/p0vOMp9Ppe pic.twitter.com/4ItOwzyOdN

— New York City Antifa (@NYCAntifa) October 14, 2018

But let’s #DoxxAllYourBoys 2×2. Joe Bola (L) & Dennis Fed Up Davila (R). They’re both in the 211 Bootboys, which perpetrated a gang beating outside the Clockwork Bar in 2016. Dennis organizes Oi Fests where people Sieg Heil. Joe wears Nazi band t-shirts. https://t.co/p0vOMp9Ppe pic.twitter.com/kM6zp66MIc

— New York City Antifa (@NYCAntifa) October 15, 2018

It’s also fun to #DoxxAllYourBoys one by one! Here’s Irvin Antillon. Member of Nazi skinhead gang B49, friendly with the Far Right 211 Bootboys, he’s apparently joined up with the Proud Boys! Oh he was in Charlottesville as well! https://t.co/p0vOMp9Ppe pic.twitter.com/Tuf2iyYfC7

— New York City Antifa (@NYCAntifa) October 14, 2018

#DoxxAllYourBoys wouldn’t be fun if we didn’t include some action shots! Here are some Proud Boys engaging in a mob beatdown, including Dave Jay and Geoff Young. Hope whatever comes your way was worth that 4th degree! https://t.co/p0vOMp9Ppe pic.twitter.com/C7KZ2jw4kE

— New York City Antifa (@NYCAntifa) October 14, 2018

A “We the People” rally is planned in Philadelphia on Nov. 17 put on by militia-related groups that many believe will bring Proud Boys out to participate, and if so will be a continuation of activity from the group that has been taking place across the country.