Right-wing provocateurs continue to instigate violence

Proud Boys and others who infiltrated BLM demonstrations haven’t stopped wreaking havoc

This story was updated on Jan. 12, 2022.

In a ten-week period during the “Freedom Summer” of 2020, almost 9,000 Black Lives Matter protests occurred across the country. Many people believe most of those protests contained burning buildings, vandalized and looted businesses, and physical confrontations between police and demonstrators.