Harrowing videos capture Proud Boys' violence at anti-vaxx rally in downtown Los Angeles: reports

Bob Brigham
August 14, 2021


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Shocking video emerged of street fighting in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday.
TV producer Andrew Kimmell, the former head of live video at BuzzFeed News, posted videos of a stomping at an anti-vaxx, Proud Boys rally.

Extremism researcher Nick Martin located a different video of the scene that reportedly documents an attack on journalists.

One person was stabbed, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"A crowd of several hundred people, many holding American flags and signs calling for 'medical freedom,' had descended on City Hall around 2 p.m. for the planned rally," the newspaper reported. "A fight erupted on the corner of 1st and Spring streets shortly after 2:30 p.m., as counterprotesters in all black and anti-vaccine demonstrators draped in American flag garb and memorabilia bearing former President Trump's face traded punches and threw items at one another."

KPCC reporter Frank Stoltze says he was attacked.

Man is stabbed in massive brawl between Antifa and anti-vaccine protesters outside Los Angeles city hall

• A man was stabbed outside City Hall in LA when a fight broke out during anti-vaccine protest on Saturday
• Protest held to push back against recent vaccine mandates and requirements
• The Los Angeles City Council voted earlier this week to draw up an ordinance to require proof of vaccination to enter many public indoor spaces in the city 
• On Saturday, LAPD responded to scene where a man was stabbed and the victim was treated by the Los Angeles Fire Department and is expected to recover
• On Twitter video footage identified some of the participants as members of the far-right Proud Boys 
• Punches could be seen being thrown with one man left bloodied
• No arrests have been made and an LAPD investigation is ongoing

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