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Atlanta activist spent $200G in Black Lives Matter donations on house, personal expenses: FBI
Sir Maejor Page, 32, is facing fraud and money laundering charges
By Robert Gearty | Fox News

The FBI has arrested the founder of a Black Lives Matter group in Atlanta on fraud and money laundering charges.

Sir Maejor Page, 32, was accused Friday of misappropriating $200,000 in donations he solicited through Facebook on behalf of Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday.

Page was arrested in Toledo and released on bond after appearing before a judge via video. He did not immediately return messages Saturday from Fox News.

The Toledo FBI office opened an investigation last year after a cooperating witness submitted a fraud complaint against Page, whose real name is Tyree Conyers-Page, FBI agent Matthew Desorbo said in the complaint.

Page founded Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta in 2016 and this year took in more than $466,000 in donations in June, July and August, Desorbo said.

"In sum, Page has spent over $200,000 on personal items generated from
donations received through BLMGA Facebook page with no identifiable purchase or expenditure
for social or racial justice," he said.

The FBI in Toledo said Page pledged to use those donations "for George Floyd" but instead used the money make purchases related to food, dining, entertainment, clothing, furniture, a home security system, tailored suits and accessories.

According to the bureau, Page also used $112,000 of the donated money to purchase a house for himself in Toledo, Ohio. The transaction took place last month.


Mugshot for Sir Maejor Page from a prior arrest. (Fox 5 Atlanta)

Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta could not solicit donations after losing its tax-exempt status as a charity in 2019 for failing to submit to the IRS 990 tax returns listing donations and expenditures.

Fox 5 reported in 2016 that Page became a familiar face at Black Lives Matter marches in Atlanta to protest fatal police shootings.

He was part of a group of Black activists who met with then-Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed to demand changes in police training and tactics. Page even spoke at a joint news conference, according to the station.

At the time, Page had been arrested several times for impersonating a police officer, the station reported..

According to the station, months earlier Page had parted ways with the Black Lives Matter of Atlanta movement before forming Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta.

Four Proud Boys Members Stabbed in Brawl Near White House After Election, Reports Say
Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast • November 4, 2020

Three men and one woman who identify as members of the ultra-right-wing Proud Boys group were stabbed near the White House in the early hours after Election Day, according to multiple reports.

Police told NBC Washington that a fight broke out around 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of 14th Street and New York Avenue Northwest—a few blocks from the White House campus. The four were stabbed and hospitalized, according to police, but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

The victims have not been formally identified, with police only saying that they are linked to the pro-Trump right-wing group. However, the New York Post reported that one of the injured men is Proud Boys leader, Enrique Tarrio. Bevelyn Beatty, who gained notoriety after dumping paint over a Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower, was also reportedly hurt.

A video posted on YouTube appears to show the start of incident as a brawl breaks out on a sidewalk. Glass can be heard smashing and, after the fight breaks up, one man can be seen bleeding profusely from his neck and a woman shouts: “They stabbed me!” The victims are then seen informing the police what happened and asking for medical assistance.

In a tweet confirming a stabbing, D.C. police said they’re on the lookout for three suspects—two men wearing black clothing, and one woman wearing what they described as “black sweatpants with white stripe, orange leggings and a dark gray coat.” Cops said the woman had a knife.

D.C. Police were on high-alert on Election Day and were filmed scrapping with protesters at Black Lives Matter Plaza on Tuesday evening as people waited for results of the 2020 presidential election. It’s not known if the stabbing had any connection to earlier demonstrations.

Antifa smashed out the Wells Fargo bank on Hawthorne Blvd. overnight in Portland to oppose Thanksgiving & capitalism.

Brownshirts just gotta have 'fun'

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1331987910610935809?s=20

Oregon Gave an Antifa Support Group Your CARES Act COVID Relief Tax Dollars During Riots
By Nick Arama | Dec 05, 2020 10:30 AM ET

Our friends over at PJ Media have an exclusive that’s more than a little infuriating.

You may be living in a state with lockdowns that have made it difficult to go to work. Your job and your livelihood may be impacted. You may be wondering how you can keep it all together.

But never fear. While you may be trying to figure out how you’re going to make it, Oregon is giving those big virus relief bucks from your tax dollars to an Antifa support group.

According to PJ Media, SNACK BLOC, the group that has provided support to “protesters” during Portland’s 100 plus days of BLM/Antifa rioting, looting, and burning, got a ton of money. Their Twitter account just seemed to start in June. In September, Snack Bloc indicated they were at the home of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (when it was protested and attacked). “You know you’re the fu–ing mayor, right? Like we’re at your building because we want YOU to stop the police officers from ‘repeatedly striking’ individuals.”

Willamette Week says the group has existed for three years but became a 501(C)(3) organization in June. The paper called them a “protest support and mutual aid group…that’s provided resources for almost 100 days of protests across Portland.”

Along with organizing its own events, Snack Bloc has been at seemingly every protest, march and vigil around the city over the past three months, providing snacks, water and supplies to protesters at the Stripper Strike, BLM Art Therapy and rallies across Portland.

The group even put out a video you can see here for Ted Wheeler’s birthday calling to “Defund, Dismantle, and BURN IT DOWN. Resources for the REVOLUTION.”

The group hasn’t tweeted since September, although they’re still getting money on Venmo. But hey they got their relief money, right?

Exactly how much relief money did this group get?

The Oregon Health Authority gave them a grant award of $145,000 from the $45 million that the state got in federally-funded CARES Act money, according to PJ Media. From all of our tax dollars. Is it possible that Oregon was unaware of what the group did? Nope. They were fully aware, that’s part of the reason they gave them the money.

When the awards were made in September, the head of the OHA said they were fully aware of the group’s receiving the money and noted how “vital” they are to “their communities” for the “collective work” to end racism, “especially relating to COVID-19.”

“We look forward to partnering with these remarkable organizations and communities, who do such vital work to serve their communities,” said Patrick Allen, OHA director. “We are deeply aware how these organizations’ linkages and knowledge of their communities and the challenges they face are so important to bringing resources to help. We look forward to the collective work to continue to meaningfully address the systemic racism and structural inequities that have caused so much health disparity, especially relating to COVID-19.”

Patrick Allen claimed that the money would go to groups “disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.”

The grants focus resources on communities most disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and programs that will address health and economic disruptions, food insecurity and housing, and safety and violence prevention, among other aspects of need.

Safety and violence prevention? Are they kidding? Could you think of anything that would less fit into those parameters?

Proud Boys and Antifa clash as Trump supporters protest election result in Washington
Our Foreign Staff | The Telegraph
Sat, December 12, 2020, 9:00 PM MST

Conservative groups claiming without evidence that the Nov. 3 election was stolen from President Donald Trump staged protests across the country on Saturday, with one in Washington turning violent at times as police broke up sporadic clashes after dark.

Organisers of Stop The Steal, linked to pro-Trump operative Roger Stone, and church groups urged supporters to participate in "Jericho Marches" and prayer rallies.

But groups of pro-Trump "Proud Boys" protesters and "Antifa" counterprotesters brawled in downtown Washington on Saturday night. Police moved in quickly to separate them, using pepper spray on members of both sides, Reuters witnesses said.

Around 200 members of the Proud Boys, a violent far-right group, had joined the marches earlier on Saturday near the Trump hotel. Many wore combat fatigues, black and yellow shirts and ballistic vests, carried helmets and flashed hand signals used by white nationalists.

Earlier, police in riot gear and on bicycles kept the opposing demonstrators apart by blocking streets. After dark fell, the protesters - including members of the aggressive far-left anti-facism movement - splintered into smaller groups to roam the streets in search of their rivals.

Protests were also held in other communities around the country, including Atlanta, Georgia, another state where Trump's campaign has sought to overturn Joe Biden's election victory, and Mobile, Alabama, according to local news coverage.

Local media in the Washington state capital of Olympia reported that one person was shot and three arrested after clashes between pro- and anti-Trump protest groups.

Trump's supporters carrying his campaign flags and signs marched between the Supreme Court, the Capitol and downtown Washington, which was closed to traffic by police vehicles and dump trucks.

Few of the marchers wore masks, despite soaring Covid-19 deaths and cases, defying a mayoral directive for them to be worn outside. Several thousand people rallied in Washington, fewer than during a similar protest last month.

As some in the crowd echoed far right conspiracy theories about the election, a truck-pulled trailer flew Trump 2020 flags and a sign reading "Trump Unity" while blaring the country song "God Bless the U.S.A".

"It's clear the election has been stolen," said Mark Paul Jones of Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, who sported a tricorner Revolutionary War hat as he walked toward the Supreme Court with his wife.

Mr Trump "is being railroaded out of office," he said, adding that Mr Biden won with the complicity of the Supreme Court, FBI, Department of Justice and CIA. The Supreme Court "didn't even take the time to hear the case," Mr Jones said.

Eddy Miller of Philadelphia, who was selling Trump campaign T-shirts, said he was sure "there was fraud despite what I see on the news" about court rulings striking down fraud allegations.

4 People Were Stabbed and 1 Was Shot During Saturday's Pro-Trump Rallies
Esquire | Abigail Covington
Sun, December 13, 2020, 4:56 PM MST·3 min read

With anger in their hearts and dangerous falsehoods clouding their judgement, thousands of protestors took to the streets of Washington D.C. and small towns across the country on Saturday to protest a Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed outgoing president Trump’s chances of invalidating the results of the 2020 presidential election. Fresh off a presidential pardon, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn showed up to placate an angry audience. “We decide the election,” he said. “We’re waging a battle across America.” Later on, he marched alongside InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

The Washington Post described Saturday’s rallies as a “falsehood-filled spectacle.” The events were surreal—a physical manifestation of the disinformation that has plagued the modern media ecosystem. Then they got violent.

Later in the afternoon, members of the Proud Boys violently clashed with counterprotestors. Videos on social media show individuals dressed in the Proud Boys’ signature yellow and black Fred Perry shirts lunging at a counterprotestor before being wrestled to the ground by the police. Four people were stabbed near Harry’s Bar at 11th Street and F Street Northwest. The location was a meet-up spot for the Proud Boys.

A spokesperson for Mayor Bowser said that the four individuals were in critical condition. Eight police officers were also injured and taken to hospitals. It remains unclear with which groups the victims are associated. On Sunday, the Associated Press reported that at least one suspect, Phillip Johnson, 29, had been arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. According to a police report obtained by the AP, at least one of the stabbing victims identified Johnson as the assailant.

By the end of the night, 30 people had been arrested and charged with various misdemeanors including assault and rioting.

3,000 miles away, a similar scene unfolded in Olympia, Washington, with Trump supporters and counterprotestors once again clashing in the streets. People from both groups threw punches and objects at each other. At one point, a shot was fired, striking a counterpotestor. A video of the immediate aftermath of the event shows two men, one in a “Make America Great Again” hat running across a parking lot and getting into a car as counterprotestors scream, “Somebody get him! He just shot somebody!” in the background.

Authorities from the Washington State Patrol later identified the alleged shooter as a 25-year-old from Shoreline, Washington, but declined to reveal his name. He remains in custody. Little is known about the victim. According to the New York Times, he is still hospitalized but refuses to speak to authorities. At a press conference concerning the Covid-19 vaccine distribution, Governor Jay Inslee (D) called the violence “maddening.”

So this is what it has come to; all because the outgoing president refuses to concede an election he lost handily. On Sunday, Trump continued his assault on democracy by posting more baseless claims about election fraud. Despite knowing that his words actively incite violence, he rages on. It’s not surprising, but it is despicable.

New Low? Black Lives Matter Monsters Terrorize Child Cancer Fundraiser in Wisconsin (VIDEO)
By Cassandra Fairbanks
Published December 18, 2020 at 11:33pm

In what might actually be a new low for Black Lives Matter monsters, a group of “protesters” in Wisconsin terrorized people who went to look at the lights in a child cancer fundraiser on Friday evening.

Story and video at https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/new-low-black-lives-matter-monsters-terrorize-child-cancer-fundraiser-wisconsin-video/

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Proud Boys and Black Lives Matter supporters clash at Utah rally
Enrique Limón
Sun, January 17, 2021, 10:41 PM

As pro-Trump extremists, which President-elect Joe Biden later would label “domestic terrorists”, laid siege to the Capitol building on Wednesday, similar “Save America” gatherings erupted across several US cities, from Atlanta, GA, to Topeka, KS — albeit on a less grand scale. Some 2,000 miles away from DC, Utah’s sleepy capital city — which as of late only pierces the national dialogue bubble when Mitt Romney or Real Housewives-related news ensues — also bore witness to a rally of its own.

Atop Salt Lake City’s Capitol Hill, approximately 400 people, some heavily armed, descended upon the Utah statehouse. There, speakers led the horde in chants and several prayers that urged a higher power to intervene in stopping Congress’ electoral count to confirm Biden's victory. “We recognize that storm clouds have gathered around us. We recognize that patriots are gathered in this city and throughout the country,” a kneeling man behind the mic said. “This is a battle...” he continued, “[and] though it is easy for us to feel anger, it’s easy for us to feel violence, help us to have an outpouring of love that lets us go forth without fear.”

During its first couple of hours, the gathering was a mostly peaceful affair. That was until Rick Egan, a photographer with local daily The Salt Lake Tribune, was harassed and pepper-sprayed, an exchange that Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall called an “attack on freedom of press and democracy” on Twitter; one that “should not be allowed to go unchecked.”

The incident happened when protest attendees took issue with Egan’s documenting presence. “Look at you in your fucking mask, you pussyy,” one protester told him, according to the paper.

“Journalism is enshrined in the First Amendment of our country’s Constitution. And today on the lawn of Utah’s Capitol it was tossed aside,” Tribune executive editor, Lauren Gustus, wrote.

Even after the fracas, the rally went on uninterrupted, with members of the Proud Boys, as well as the locally bred Utah Citizen’s Alarm, gathered around its periphery, some chanting “All lives matter!” to a group of four Black Lives Matter supporters as a handful of state troopers looked on. At one point, one rally-goer accompanied by his black German Shepherd began shouting, “Black dogs’ lives matter” at the group, while another sarcastically sang “Kumbaya.”

Minutes later, as Black Lives Matter supporters made their way closer to the Capitol building, one Proud Boy ripped away their signature flag, ripping it apart while tossing its metal pole to the side.

“We’re better than this,” a woman trying to temper the altercation kept repeating.

Amid the chaos, a lone rally opponent, Ashlyn Tolman, stood in silence, holding a sign emblazoned with the message: “Trump lost. Accept the confirmed results, not conspiracy.”

“I just think it’s important to... stand for, like, the side that you believe in—especially when it’s not very represented,” the 17-year-old said, after a pair of middle-aged women interrupted our initial interview. “You’re more patriotic than Biden,” one of the hecklers said. “I’m not for what you’re saying, but… you’ve got more balls than Biden, I’ll tell you that right now.”

Asked if she was concerned for her safety, Tolman shrugged. “I’m not too worried,” she said. “People just kind of say things, I don’t know, against me but I don’t think anyone’s... inciting violence or anything,” she said.

“So I think I’m OK—hopefully,” Tolman finalized, crossing her fingers.

Proud Boys: Canada labels far-right group a terrorist entity
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Canada says the Proud Boys are a "neo-fascist organisation"

Canada has designated the far-right group Proud Boys as a terrorist entity.

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said the decision was influenced by the group's "pivotal role" in the 6 January riots at the Capitol in Washington, DC.

The designation allows the Proud Boys' assets to be frozen, and members of the groups could be charged with terrorist offences if they commit violent acts.

The group is all-male and anti-immigrant, and has a history of violent political confrontations.

It was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, the Canadian co-founder of Vice Media. Vice has since worked to distance itself from Mr McInnes and the Proud Boys

Who are Proud Boys and antifa?

The Proud Boys' platform includes ideas espoused by former US President Donald Trump, libertarianism and traditional gender roles.

The group was mentioned by Mr Trump during the first US presidential debate last October.

Responding to a question about white supremacist and militia groups, he said, "Proud Boys - stand back and stand by", which members of the group online took as a call to prepare for action. Mr Trump later distanced himself from them.

The announcement in Canada comes one week after the US Department of Homeland Security warned of a "heightened threat" of domestic terrorism from violent extremists unhappy with the outcome of the presidential election.

And just hours after the announcement, the US Justice Department announced it had arrested and charged a top member of the group's Seattle chapter. Ethan Nordean, 30, who is also known as Rufio Panman, is at least the eighth group member to be charged in connection with the Capitol riots.

In Canada on Wednesday, Mr Blair described a "growing threat of ideologically motivated violent extremism". He did not specify how many Proud Boy chapters are currently in Canada.

The Canadian Proud Boy groups had previously been thought of as disparate and disorganised, but the new designation suggests their perceived threat has been elevated.

The decision was made based on "a trove of new information", Mr Blair said. "Over the past several months, basically since 2018, we have seen an escalation towards violence for this group [the Proud Boys]."

The escalation has continued since the US presidential election, he added.

In his announcement, Mr Blair referenced "several different occasions" of attacks in Canada from those with far-right and extremist ideologies. Last week, the country marked the four-year anniversary of a mass shooting in a Quebec mosque that killed six people and injured 19.

Despite strict travel restrictions between the US and Canada, at least two Canadians later identified in media reports made it to Washington for last month's storming of the Capitol. And images and video of the 6 January riots show at least one Canadian flag held by someone in the crowd.

Canada is the first country to give the Proud Boys a terrorist designation.

Two other far-right US groups - Atomwaffen Division and the Base - have also been designated by Canada as terrorist entities, along with several affiliates of the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda.

A total of six white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups have been designated by terrorist entities in Canada. Prior to 2018, no such groups were listed as a terrorist threat.