A Black teacher and musician who says members of a white nationalist hate group beat him with metal shields during a march through Boston has sued the organization.
FILE - Members group bearing insignias of the white supremacist Patriot Front shove Charles Murrell with metal shields during a march through Boston on Saturday, July 2, 2022, in Boston. The Black musician who says members of the white nationalist hate group punched, kicked and beat him with metal shields during a march through Boston last year sued the organization on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023.
“As a result of this beating, Mr. Murrell sustained physical injuries to his face, head, and hand, all of which required medical attention. Mr. Murrell also continues to suffer significant emotional distress to this day as a result of the incident,” the suit says. “Among other harms, those physical and emotional injuries have adversely affected Mr. Murrell’s ability to earn a living as a musician.
Murrell, who has a background teaching special education, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday that the lawsuit is about holding Patriot Front accountable, helping his own healing process and preventing anything similar from happening to children of color, like those he teaches.
The goal of the lawsuit is not just justice and accountability, said Licha Nyiendo, the chief legal officer at Human Rights First, which is backing Murrell in the lawsuit, but to bankrupt Patriot Front. “That bankrupted and marginalized the leading hate groups that were involved in Charlottesville and really pulled back the curtain, through the discovery process, on how these groups operate,” said Amy Spitalnick, the senior adviser on extremism for Human Rights First.
Founded after the “Unite the Right” rally, Patriot Front’s manifesto calls for the formation of a white ethnostate in the United States, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website.
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