The white nationalist group Patriot Front and its leader, Thomas Rousseau, have been hit where it hurts most in a civil rights violation ruling.
By Grace Jidoun, Atlanta Black Star
On Jan. 13, a federal judge ordered the extremist group from Grapevine, Texas, to pay $2.7 million in damages to Charles Murrell, an African-American man who was attacked when he happened upon the white supremacist group in Boston in July 2022.
The classically trained musician, who is also a former special education teacher, was on his way to play saxophone outside the Boston Public Library when he saw a group of masked men marching toward him on the sidewalk.