Proud Boys ordered to give trademark name to Black church
Inset: Enrique Tarrio, the former national Proud Boys leader whose 22-year sentence on seditious conspiracy charges was pardoned by President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier). Background: Supporters of President Donald Trump wearing attire associated with the Proud Boys attend a rally at Freedom Plaza, Dec. 12, 2020, in Washington. A judge on Friday, June 30, 2023, awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington, D.C. that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Inset: Enrique Tarrio, the former national Proud Boys leader whose 22-year sentence on seditious conspiracy charges was pardoned by President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier). Background: Supporters of President Donald Trump wearing attire associated with the Proud Boys attend a rally at Freedom Plaza, Dec. 12, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

The far-right Proud Boys extremist group has lost control of its trademarked name, which has now been handed over to a historically Black church in Washington, D.C., that members of the group vandalized in 2020.

District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier, a Joe Biden appointee, on Monday ordered Proud Boys International, L.L.C. to transfer its interest in the name to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The church is now entitled to the group’s interests in the Proud Boys trademark, and the group cannot sell or transfer the name without the church’s consent or the court’s approval, the order said.

“This is our time to stand up, to be very clear to the Proud Boys and their ilk that we came here fighting, that we have never ever capitulated to the violent whims of White supremacist groups,” Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of the Metropolitan AME Church, told CBS Moneywatch. “If they thought we would be afraid, they were wrong. There are many people with us and who stand with us.”

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