A Kalamazoo woman says she won’t be intimidated by supporters of an extremist group.
Musician Megan Dooley says she’s been getting calls since a run-in with the Proud Boys in downtown Kalamazoo.
Critics say the Proud Boys, which has chapters around the country, is a hate group in everything but name. Members have marched with white supremacists. And two were recently convicted of rioting after clashing with opponents in New York City. Dooley was one of several people who followed three men in Proud Boys shirts out of Bell’s Eccentric Café on Friday. She put their picture and their license plates on Facebook.
“I mean if these men want to wear propaganda in public that pushes an agenda of hate towards marginalized people, or violence, then I’m going to definitely let the public know that they’re there.”
Dooley says she later got an anonymous voicemail suggesting there could be trouble when she plays at another Kalamazoo bar Thursday night.
Voicemail: We’ll see what it’s like when we stop by old K-zoo.
Dooley says there won’t be trouble because her supporters won’t be provoked into a fight.