Don Grundmann

• PROUD BOYS ASSAULT PEOPLE AT MODESTO STRAIGHT PRIDE, COLLABORATE WITH BLM ACTIVIST

  posted on Sep 12, 2021
  by LCRW & SIERRA FOOTHILLS STUMP STAFF

  

  EDITOR'S NOTE : This story was written in conjunction with staff at the Sierra Foothills Stump. You can the Stump on Patreon here.

  UPDATE 14 SEPTEMBER 2021 12:00PM: This article was updated to include comment from Jaimee Ellison of Turlock BLM.

  For the third year in a row, perennial fringe candidate Don Grundmann put on his “Straight Pride” event in front of a closed-for-the-day Planned Parenthood in Modesto, California on August 28th. The annual gatherings have become a defacto show of force for violent, hard-right paramilitary groups in the Central Valley and this year was no different. A counter-rally at nearby Roosevelt Park saw a turnout of about 100 people. Antifascists at the park chased out heads of two of the paramilitary groups who had been invited by a Black Lives Matter organizer against the wishes of the anti-hate event’s organizers. The day ended in the Proud Boys and others assaulting antifascist counter-protestors who showed up to extract a small group who went to stand in across the street from Grundmann’s event with signs and were being surrounded and heckled. Police allowed members of the Proud Boys and others to assault counter-protestors with relative impunity, with only two people arrested—one for assaulting an officer.

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