Patriot Front never responded to the lawsuit and the judge ruled in the musician's favor on every count.

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Patriot Front ordered to pay $2.7M to Black musician for Boston attack

The Patriot Front and its leader, Thomas Rousseau, lost $2.75 million after a federal court issued a judgment against them for the attack on classically trained saxophonist Charles Murrell, Rolling Stone reported Monday.Murrell was en route to a public library in Boston on the Fourth of July weekend in 2022 when Rosseau led an unpermitted "flash mob" in the area. They shouted racist epithets at the musician — including "tar baby" — while surroun…

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Violent white nationalist group forced to pay Black musician millions after attack: report

The Black man who was shoved and assaulted by a white nationalist group in downtown Boston on Fourth of July weekend won nearly $2.8 million in damages against the group, Patriot Front. Charles Murrell III, a musician and teacher, sued Patriot Front in August 2023 in federal court. The lawsuit targeted both the group itself as well as its Texas-based leader Thomas Rosseau and the members of the group who marched through Boston that weekend. Thos…

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Black man assaulted by white nationalist group Patriot Front wins nearly $2.8M in court

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A federal court has levied a $2.75 million judgment against Patriot Front, the prominent, violent white-nationalist extremist organization, and its leader Thomas Rousseau. 
	The judgment, levied Monday in federal district court in Massachusetts, stems from an unpermitted “flash” mob of masked Patriot Front toughs, led by Rousseau, in Boston during the Fourth of July weekend in 2022. According to the court, the fascist marchers victimized a class…

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Hate Group Hit with $2.75 Million Judgment for Battering Black Musician

During an “unauthorized flash march” through the streets of Boston, Charles Murrell had pushed and knocked on the ground the “Patriot Front”, a white American supremacist group, was condemned.

Lors d’une « marche éclair non autorisée » dans les rues de Boston avaient poussé et frappé au sol Charles Murrell Le « Patriot Front », un groupuscule suprémaciste américain blanc, a été condamné

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United States: a supremacist group sentenced to nearly 3 million dollars for racist assault

Court paperwork reveals the white nationalist group “Patriot Front” has been ordered to pay $2.7M to Black musician Charles Murrell. Murrell says members of the group shoved him into a light pole and knocked him to the ground during a protest back in July 2022. Murrell suffered injuries to his head and hands, including one that caused his hand to lock up when playing his instrument. “Anybody dealing with trauma would tell you it’s day-to-day,” s…

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White nationalist group ordered to pay $2.7M to Black musician for 2022 attack in Boston - Boston News, Weather, Sports

Defined as a neo-Nazi and white supremacist group, the 'Patriot Front' is led by far-right militant Thomas Rousseau

Definido como um grupo neonazista e supremacista branco, o 'Patriot Front' é liderado pelo militante de extrema-direita Thomas Rousseau

Justiça condena grupo supremacista a pagar quase US$ 3 milhões por agredir músico negro nos EUA

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Justice condemns supremacist group to pay nearly US$ 3 million for assaulting black musician in the USA

The assault on Charles M. Murrell III was encouraged by Patriot Front’s leader, who “glorified” it afterward by posting a video online, a judge wrote.

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Judge orders white supremacist group Patriot Front to pay $2.7 million to Black musician attacked in Boston - The Boston Globe

A federal judge today awarded street musician and teacher Charles Murrell III $2.76 million in actual and punitive damages against the Nazi group Patriot Front and its leader Thomas Rosseau for the way they pinned him against a light pole, beat him and forced him into a busy street on July 2, 2022 as he was making his way to play his saxophone outside the BPL and they were

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Judge rules Nazi group owes Black musician nearly $3 million for

The “Patriot Front”, a white sum-premacist group, was sentenced on Monday to pay $2.7 million for assaulting a black musician in Boston on the occasion of a demonstration during the Independence Day festivities of July 4, 2022, a federal court reported. During the “unauthorized lightning” protest of about a hundred people on the streets of Boston (north-east of the United States), who “appropriated public sidewalks” paraded with their faces cove…

El «Patriot Front», un grupo sumpremacista blanco, fue condenado este lunes a pagar 2,7 millones de dólares por agredir en Boston a un músico negro con motivo de una manifestación durante las festividades del Día de la Independencia del 4 de julio de 2022, informó una corte federal.   Durante la protesta «relámpago no autorizada» de un centenar de personas en las calles de Boston (noreste de Estados Unidos), que se «apropiaron de las aceras públ…

Patriot Front ordered to pay $2.7M to Black musician for Boston attack

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