A judge’s decision to a lawsuit against Proud Boys was to award more than $1 million to the church of a Black man in Washington, DC.
Black man church was awarded more than $1 million
Last Friday, a juror awarded more than $1 million to the church of a black man in Washington that filed a lawsuit against Proud Boys after tearing down and burning a Black Man Lives Matter banner during a protest in 2020.
Superior Court Associated Judge Neal A. Kravitz decided to bar the Proud Boys extremist group from coming near the Black Man Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church or making threats to black men. They also prohibit saying defamatory remarks against the church of a black man.
The courage to fight back in response to the 2020 attack on the Black man church is an inspiration of hope for the Black man community, and the ruling of the juror showed the Black man what the collective vision of them can achieve, said the Rev. William H. Lamar IV, black man pastor of Metropolitan AME
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The ruling was a default judgment issued after the Proud Boys defendants failed to appear in court to fight the case filed by the black man church
Two Black Man Lives Matter banners were burned down from Metropolitan AME, and another historically Black man church burned the flag during the pro-Donald Trump supporters and counterdemonstrators in 2020.
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