Allen filed a lawsuit in December seeking at least $6.5 million from the law centre, Beirich and Mark Potok, a former senior fellow with the organization. The suit seeks an unspecified amount, court records show. Last month, the Washington-based Centre for Immigration Studies sued Richard Cohen, the law centre’s president, and Heidi Beirich, the director of its intelligence unit, in federal court claiming the organization had wrongly labeled it as an anti-immigrant hate group. Under the out-of-court settlement, the Southern Poverty Law Centre issued written and video statements saying it was wrong to include the London-based Quilliam and Maajid Nawaz in a “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists” in 2016. The lawsuit is at least the third filed against the Southern Poverty Law Centre or its leaders since June, when the organization apologized to a British group and its founder and agreed to pay $3.4 million after labeling them as anti-Muslim extremists. McInnes lives in Westchester, a New York City suburb. McInnes on Monday described the Proud Boys as “basically a pro-Trump drinking club.” Members of the group brawled with anti-fascist protesters following a speech by McInnes at a Manhattan Republican club in October, resulting in arrests of both Proud Boys’ members and anti-fascists. The SPLC on its website says the Proud Boys have an ideology of “general hate” and are known for anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric.
Some organizations have filed lawsuits to fight being labeled as hate groups. The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Centre is best known for tracking right-wing extremists including the Ku Klux Klan. McInnes and his Proud Boys group have been banned from Facebook and Instagram because of policies prohibiting hate groups. FILE – In this Apfile photo, Gavin McInnes, center, founder of the far-right group Proud Boys, is surrounded by supporters after speaking at a rally in Berkeley, Calif. The fact that he’s upset with SPLC tells us that we’re doing our job exposing hate and extremism,” Cohen said.
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