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For the second year, a planned “straight pride” rally in Modesto morphed into something different as militia members, Proud Boys and counterprotesters faced off Saturday afternoon.
About 150 Proud Boys and other people from various other groups gathered to march outside a Planned Parenthood facility.
A smaller group of Antifa, from a dozen to two dozen, amassed on the opposite east side of McHenry Avenue. About midway through the event, more than a dozen people from the straight pride/militia/Proud Boys contingent crossed the street to directly confront the counterprotesters.
This was a huge mistake as many Black Bloc members got knuckle sandwiched and kicked to the ground. If not for the cans of mace they used to keep the horde from them, things would have gotten a lot worse.
Several Proud Boys were arrested.