Four people were stabbed in Washington DC on Saturday, authorities say. Members of the far-right group Proud Boys burned a Black Lives Matter banner while making white supremacy hand gestures as violence erupted in Washington DC overnight on Saturday. Video posted to social media shows at least two dozen white men – most of them wearing bulletproof vests – encircling the blazing sign, hours after thousands of Donald Trump supporters attended a “Stop The Steal” rally against the election results. One member of the group poured a flammable substance onto the fire, sending flames and thick black smoke billowing into the night sky. Written underneath the words “Black Lives Matter” on the flag was the website of the Asbury United Methodist Church, a majority-Black but mixed congregation founded in 1836 and located a few blocks from the White House. The Proud Boys group chanted “F*** Antifa!” referencing far-left anti-fascism protesters who they have repeatedly clashed with during racial justice protests this year following the police killings of Black Americans including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Several of the protesters also made the “OK” hand gesture, adopted by those on the far-right to display a “sincere expression of white supremacy”, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
via independent: ‘F*** Antifa!’: Far-right Proud Boys burn BLM banner while making white supremacy signs at DC rally