{"id":8436,"date":"2019-07-14T17:28:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2019-07-14T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:29:51","slug":"proud-boy-gets-40-weekends-in-jail-for-nyc-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/14\/proud-boy-gets-40-weekends-in-jail-for-nyc-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud Boy Gets 40 Weekends in Jail for NYC Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few people have already been sentenced for their role in the fight outside one of Gavin McInnes’ speech in October, and there are more to come. Geoffrey Young is the latest. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

MANHATTAN, NY \u2013 During a July 6 rally in Washington, DC,\nProud Boy founder Gavin McInnes said that the neo-Fascist group \u201cdon\u2019t start\nfights, we finish them.\u201d On Thursday, a judge finished a fight for at least one\nProud Boy that started it, giving a 40-weekend jail sentence to Geoffrey Young,\none of the Proud Boys who on October 12 attacked antifascist protesters outside\nthe Manhattan Republican Club where McInnes was speaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young, 38, pled guilty to the charges of riot and attempted\nassault on June 20. The sentence amounts to ten months of weekends in jail. He was\none of ten arrested that was involved in the brawl, and becomes the latest person\nto be sentenced for their role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brawl took place just after dozens protested the appearance\nof McInnes at the Republican Club. Although the initial video implied that\nantifa provoked the fight by throwing a bottle at the Proud Boys, a video shot\nat another angle showing that it was the Proud Boys who had initiated the\nconfrontation. McInnes, whose speech at the Club included mocking the assassination\nof a Jewish socialist leader in the sixties, announced weeks later that he was\n\u201cofficially disassociating\u201d from the group he founded, but only as a tactic to\nprotect those that were arrested, saying, \u201cI\u2019m told by my legal team and law\nenforcement that this gesture could help alleviate their sentencing.\u201d It has\nnever been revealed who among law enforcement suggested this action to McInnes\nor why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the ten that were arrested, Douglas Lennan, 40, is to\nserve five days community service after copping a plea April 5 to one count of\nriot and one count of attempted assault as does Jake Freijo and Eryk Kacznyski\nafter pleading guilty to disorderly conduct on March 1. John Kinsman, who was called\nthe \u201csingle most vicious\u201d member of the crew by prosecutors, David Kuriakose and\nMaxwell Hare, all facing riot and attempted assault charges, are due in court\nJuly 29. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Proud Boys arrested were Kyle Borello and David Jacob, while another person, Irvin Antillon, is a member of a Latino neo-Nazi group called B49. At the June 6 rally in DC, McInnes likened assaulting antifa approvingly of Nazis in World War II killing Soviet soldiers, who were part of the Allied forces which included the United States and Great Britain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gavin McIness, founder of the pro-Trump gang, likens Proud Boys beating up antifascists to Nazi soldiers in World War II killing Soviet troops. This will look great in court. #AllOutDC<\/a> #DemandFreeSpeech<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/tVyt2BW1Ue<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/gCKuvjuosw<\/a><\/p>\u2014 It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) July 6, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n