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White supremacist group marches in downtown Boston with ‘Reclaim America’ banner
Identified by police as Patriot Front, the white supremacist group was carrying flags and chanting about "white pride."
Members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front rallied near the Massachusetts State House Saturday, according to police.
Boston police said there were no arrests stemming from the event, which saw the white supremacist group gather near the State House around 12:40 p.m. A spokesperson for the department said there was another group protesting police brutality at the State House.
The counter protesters, identified as Patriot Front by police, were carrying flags and using an amplifying device, the Boston police spokesperson said.
In an image shared with Boston.com, members of the group held a banner that read “Reclaim America,” which is one Patriot Front’s slogans, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
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Katie Faraone, of Boston, said she was walking her dog when she saw the group of men across from the State House. She told Boston.com that they used a megaphone to yell about “white pride and taking back America.”
A video online showed around a dozen of the masked individuals, wearing khakis, navy shirts, and baseball caps, carrying flags and walking down Cambridge Street.
It’s unclear if the demonstration was permitted. The City of Boston did not return a request for comment Sunday.
Patriot Front is an “image-obsessed” group that broke off from Vanguard America after the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The center said the group “rehabilitated the explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard America with garish patriotism.”
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The white supremacist group is known in Boston for an unpermitted march through downtown Boston in 2022. During the march, members of the group attacked a Black man near the Boston Public Library. A judge awarded the man attacked by the white supremacists more than $2.7 million in federal court last month.
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