The Proud Boys have lost the legal right to use their own name, logos, and emblems after a judge awarded control of the group’s trademark to a historically black church in Washington, D.C. The ruling stems from a lawsuit over the Proud Boys’s destruction of Black Lives Matter banners during clashes between supporters of President Donald Trump and counter-demonstrators in December 2020.
Judge Tanya Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled on Feb. 3 that Proud Boys chapters across the United States cannot legally use the organization’s name or symbols without the consent of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church (Metropolitan AME).
