Members of the Patriot Front — the group that swears it’s not a white supremacist group despite how often it gets caught participating in white supremacist-friendly activities — have been ordered to pay more than $2.7 million to a Black teacher in Boston who was attacked and allegedly called a “tar baby” by rabid white men in 2022.
Last October, we reported the story of educator and classically trained musician Charles Murrell III, who filed a federal lawsuit against the Patriot Front members he said punched and kicked him after addressing him with the aforementioned racist language.
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On Monday, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani found Patriot Front and its leader, Thomas Rousseau, liable for the attack on Murrell and ordered them to pay $2 million in punitive damages and $755,000 in damages for his injuries, pain and suffering, lost wages, and future earnings, according to the Boston Globe. They were also ordered to pay Murrell’s legal fees, which have not yet been determined.
In her 27-page decision, Talwani denounced the group of disgruntled white men as a bunch of despicable racists, citing video footage that showed Patriot Front members “pinning Murrell against the light post and pushing him into the busy road, to promote the view that non-white individuals like Murrell should be subordinated to white people.”
As we previously reported, the attack on Murrell took place when the saxophonist was walking along Dartmouth Street on his way to the Boston Public Library to play the sax during the Fourth of July weekend 2022. But Murrell’s trip to the library put him in the path of a “flash march” that the white men dressed in khakis, blue shirts, sunglasses, and baseball caps (the new Klan robe) and carrying signs that read “Reclaim America” (the new “Whites Only” sign) were participating in. At some point, the Patriot…
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