From the archive: Anti-Sharia Law protest five years ago included Proud Boys members

FRIDAY, June 10 — A congressional committee spent Thursday night laying out a carefully documented argument that groups like the Three Percenters Militia and the Proud Boys worked together in a conspiracy of sedition -- legal charges members and of both  groups face in federal court. 

So it was coincidence that today marks the fifth anniversary of a  large-scale protest and counter protest at the intersection of the I-96 exit at Pennsylvania Avenue. In reviewing archive images from that day, City Pulse identified a member of the Three Percenters militia and two members of the Proud Boys . The archives also include images of William Null, a member of the Michigan Liberty Militia, who faces charges for a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

William Null, a member of the Michigan Liberty Militia and a defendant in a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (left) and an unidentified member of the Proud Boys (far right) at a June 10, 2017 protest against Sharia Law held in south Lansing.

William Null (back left) stand with Phil Robinson, leader of the Michigan Liberty Militia during a June 10, 2017 anti-Sharia Law protest in south Lansing.

An unidentified member of the Proud Boys (left) in the group's trademark black and yellow polo shirt protests an alleged threat of Sharia law taking over the American judicial system on June 10, 2017.

The back of second unidentified Proud Boy showing the group's trademark black and yellow polo as well as its hat with the name of the organization stitched into it. He was participating in an anti-Sharia Law protest on June 10, 2017 in south Lansing.

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The Three Percenters Militia  is a more radical sub-group of the general militia movement, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Specifically, the group alleges only 3% of American colonists participated in the American Revolution. The group claims is stands ready to battle any "tyranny" in America. 

The Anti-Defamation League calls the Proud Boys organization an extremist group whose members are "primarily misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration. Some members espouse white supremacist and antisemitic ideologies and/or engage with white supremacist groups."

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