TRUMP-SUPPORTING 'PROUD BOYS' GROUP WILL BE INVESTIGATED BY NEW YORK HATE CRIMES UNIT AFTER VIOLENCE IN MANHATTANBY JASON LEMON ON 10/14/18 AT 2:46 PM
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has criticized Republicans and called for a hate crime investigation by police after members of the far-right Trump-supporting Proud Boys group were involved in violent clashes in Manhattan on Friday evening.
The Democratic governor also pointed fingers at Donald Trump on Sunday, accusing the president and his party of fanning the flames of division within the country.
“So the president is on the stump today saying ‘the Democrats are a mob, the Democrats will bring chaos, they are leftists,’ and then coincidentally, the Republican Party in the State of New York invites a group known for violence and for hate speech,†Cuomo said, WAMC Northeast Public Radio reported, suggesting that the Proud Boys were invited specifically to cause a brawl.
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