Black man details alleged beating at the hands of a white supremacist group (Patriot Front) in Boston

Source: Associated Press

Black man details alleged beating at the hands of a white supremacist group in Boston

Updated 5:46 PM EDT, October 3, 2024

BOSTON (AP) — A Black teacher and musician told a federal court Thursday that members of a white nationalist hate group punched, kicked and beat him with metal shields during a march through downtown Boston two years ago.

Charles Murrell III, of Boston, was in federal court Thursday to testify in his lawsuit asking for an undisclosed amount of money from the group’s leader, Thomas Rousseau.

“I thought I was going to die,” Murrell said, according to The Boston Globe.

The newspaper said that U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani last year found the group and Rousseau, of Grapevine, Texas, liable for the attack after Rousseau didn’t respond to a civil lawsuit Murrell filed. Talwani will issue a ruling after the hearing from Murrell and several other witnesses.

Murrell was in the area of the Boston Public Library to play his saxophone on July 2, 2022, when he was surrounded by members of the Patriot Front and assaulted in a “coordinated, brutal, and racially motivated attack,” according to his lawsuit.

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