In October 2018, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was invited to speak
at the Manhattan Republican club, drawing neo-Nazi supporters and antifa
protesters; Proud Boy thugs waded into the protest and began
indiscriminately attacking the protesters.
The Manhattan DA filed assault and riot charges against four Proud Boys,
but that’s not all: the DA’s office also served Google with a “reverse
search warrant” seeking the names of the owners of every mobile device
present on the scene, in a bid to unmask and charge antifa protestes.
This marks the first known instance in which the Manhattan DA has used the controversial “reverse search warrant.”