Members of the pro-Trump group “Proud Boys” were harassed and chased out of a restaurant in Los Angeles by Democratic Socialist protesters on Saturday night.
Last night our members and allies in @defendnela ran a proud boy meet up out of the Griffin in Atwater Village. The bar knew about it and the manager defended them, but we shut it down anyway. Don’t let nazis convene in your city! pic.twitter.com/96GzdwHG18
— DSA Los Angeles (@DSA_LosAngeles) July 15, 2018
The Los Angeles DSA chapter tweeted videos of the protests. They can be heard chanting, “No Proud Boys, no KKK, no fascist USA” at a bar called The Griffin.
Others can be heard yelling “F-ck you, fascist,” “Get out of here, Nazi” and “Fascist pigs, squeal … you’re all swine.”
According to their twitter account, “The bar knew about it and the manager defended them, but we shut it down anyway. Don’t let Nazis convene in your city!”
They added that one Griffin employee said, “The only color I see is green,” a clear reference to wanting their business.
“The only color I see is green,” said one Griffin staffer when we pressed him on allowing white supremacists in their bar. That’s why DSA-LA and @NOlympicsLA are proud to partner with @defendnela to fight not just the racists in our communities but the gentrifiers who enable them pic.twitter.com/QVgaGtQ3CZ
— DSA Los Angeles (@DSA_LosAngeles) July 15, 2018
There have been calls on Twitter for people to boycott the restaurant for refusing to kick them out.
Trump supporters and administration officials have been attacked and harassed more frequently in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a man in Texas stole a teenager’s MAGA hat and threw his drink in his face. The perpetrator of the assault was arrested.
At the beginning of July, former White House strategist Steve Bannon was harassed in a Virginia bookstore. The owner of the store asked the woman to leave and threatened to call the police on her, which he ended up doing. (RELATED: Bookstore Owner Calls Police After A Woman Verbally Harasses Steve Bannon)