In May of 2017, eight men met at Mackesey’s Irish Pub in downtown Madison to drink beer and talk politics. The men, all of them White and most in their 20s, had met online and were getting together for the first time.
The meeting would establish the Wisconsin chapter of an emerging national group called the Proud Boys. For Thaddeus Pall, it was a rare opportunity to openly express his support for
President Donald Trump in liberal Madison.
As the men were leaving the bar for a member’s apartment, Pall, then 26, separated from the group to buy cigarettes. According to Madison police, as Pall was returning to his new friends, he was approached on the street by men in hoodies with what Pall described as baseball bats or wooden sticks. He told police the men had targeted him as a Trump supporter because of his T-shirt, which read: “Basket of Deplorables 2016.”
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Arizona woman charged in Capitol melee says Proud Boys recruited her
By Roxana Hegeman
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. - An Arizona woman charged in the
Jan. 6 onslaught of the U.S. Capitol bragged in a Snapchat video that she was recently recruited by a Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys, a neofascist organization that describes itself as Western chauvinists and has long forbidden female members.
Felicia Konold’s claim that the chapter recruited her and she was with them now, even though she’s not from the Kansas City area, has intrigued experts who study extremist right-wing movements. It is ironic that such a deeply misogynistic organization has attracted someone who is a woman to join their organization, said Eric Ward, a senior fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center. It tells us there is dissension in the ranks of Proud Boys right now.
The recent arrest of an Arizona woman who prosecutors say was a member of a Proud Boys cell in Kansas City has intrigued experts who study extremist right-wing movements
Konold, who is charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, says the group that has long forbidden female members recruited her, raising eyebrows among experts.