- A member of the $4 openly came forward and said he is to blame for setting a Black Lives Matter banner on fire during a pro-Trump rally on December 12, the $4 reported.
- "I was the person that went ahead and put the lighter to it and engulfed it in flames, and I am damn proud that I did,"
Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio said. - In a $4, a conservative social media site, Tarrio also said "he did it out of love."
A high-ranking member of the Proud Boys took credit for $4 in Washington, DC last weekend.
Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the $4, said he was involved in burning a $4, one of the churches vandalized following a $4 on December 12, according to $4.
The incident was $4, which showed Proud Boys members chanting and shouting "f--k antifa" while burning the stolen sign. A Black Lives Matter banner was $4, another historic church, by the Proud Boys that same night.
On Monday, DC authorities along with the FBI Washington Field Office $4 for the suspects in connection to burning the banners for "destruction of property," WAMU reported. Police also told $4 earlier this week the incident is being investigated "as potential hate crimes."
"I'm here to tell you that there was no hate crime committed," Tarrio $4 to Parler, a $4. "Against the wishes of my attorney I am here today to admit that I am the person responsible for the burning of this sign. And I am not ashamed of what I did because I didn't do it out of hate...I did it out of love."
"Come get me if you feel like what I did was wrong," Tarrio added.
On the Proud Boys' podcast, Tarrio said he was" damn proud" that he "went ahead and put the lighter" to the church's BLM sign and "engulfed it in flames," $4.
Reverand Ianther Mills of Asbury United likened the vandalism of their Black Lives Matter sign to "cross burnings," a $4.
"It pained me especially to see our name, Asbury, in flames. For me it was reminiscent of cross burnings," Mills wrote. "Seeing this act on video made me both indignant and determined to fight the evil that has reared its ugly head. We had been so confident that no one would ever vandalize the church, but it has happened."
"These racist attacks - attacks on the very idea that Black Lives Matter - at historic churches were meant to send a message to black people and all of us who call the District of Columbia our home. We must send one back: that racially motivated crimes in the District of Columbia will be met with full force of the law," DC Attorney General Karl Racine $4 calling to prosecute the incident as a hate crime, according to WAMU.