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Proud Boys lose trademark ownership to Black church they vandalized

February 4, 2025
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The ownership of the Proud Boys’ trademark is now in the hands of a Black church that the White supremacist group vandalized in 2020. 

The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., was granted ownership of the group’s trademark in a Feb. 3 ruling from Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The decision also gives the Metropolitan AME Church a lien on the trademark and the power to block the Proud Boys from using the trademark or selling licensed goods, like T-shirts or hats, without the church’s approval. 

Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys’ leader, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. In a statement to the New York Times, which earlier reported the court ruling, and which Tarrio posted on X, he said the judge should be impeached and the church’s nonprofit status revoked. 

Tarrio, who had been serving a 22-year sentence for seditious conspiracy tied to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol building, was pardoned by President Trump after his Jan. 20 inauguration.

The ruling on the Proud Boys’ copyright stems from an incident on Dec. 12, 2020, when members of the all-male right-wing group attended a “stop the steal” event in Washington, D.C., and also attacked the Metropolitan AME Church by climbing over a fence to get onto church property, where they destroyed a “Black Lives Matters” sign, according to court documents. A court ordered the Proud Boys to pay the church $2.8 million, money that the group has failed to pay, the documents note. 

As a result, the court gave the Metropolitan AME Church ownership of the trademark, giving them the right to deny use of the group’s name and yellow or black laurel wreath symbol. 

“This is our time to stand up, to be very clear to the Proud Boys and their ilk that we came here fighting, that we have never ever capitulated to the violent whims of White supremacist groups,” Rev. William H. Lamar IV, pastor of the Metropolitan AME Church, told CBS MoneyWatch. “If they thought we would be afraid, they were wrong. There are many people with us and who stand with us.”

The Metropolitan AME Church, which was founded in 1838 and has hosted speakers including Frederick Douglass and Eleanor Roosevelt, can now collect funds from sales of Proud Boys merchandise as well as its membership dues, people familiar with the case said. The church can also block the Proud Boys from using the trademark, they said.

The notoriety of the Proud Boys’ name likely helped the group in recruitment, which means blocking use of its trademark could both hurt the group’s ability to sell merchandise and recruit new members, they added.

“From our point of view, it’s fitting that the money the Proud Boys raised in sales and dues will go to fund the good work of the Metropolitan AME,” Kaitlin Banner, who represented the church in the case and serves as deputy legal director at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, told CBS. 

In his statement posted on X, Tarrio indicated he didn’t intend to honor the court’s ruling. “I hold in contempt any motions, judgments and orders issued against me,” he wrote.

Aimee Picchi

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports.

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