Proud Boys lose naming rights to Black church members attacked after Trump rally in 2020 Extremist organization instrumental in the Jan. 6 insurrection has been stripped of its trademark after failing to pay compensatory damages to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Proud Boys, a far-right sect of Donald Trump supporters, has lost its naming rights to a predominantly Black church after vandalizing its premises and demonstrating “hateful and overtly racist conduct” in December 2020, a court has found.
Proud Boys chapters across the U.S. will no longer be able to legally use their name, traditional logos or emblems without the church’s permission, Judge Tanya Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled.
In June 2023, D.C. Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz ordered the Proud Boys to pay the church $2.8 million as part of a civil suit judgment involving the destruction of property.
The Metropolitan AME church, located at 15th and M Streets in Northwest Washington, sued the Proud Boys on January 4, 2021, alleging the group’s members vandalized a sign during the march.
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