Proud Boys leader admits rallies all about brawling, costing ‘millions’

Proud Boys rallies are all about brawling with anti-fascists and wasting the public’s money, the group’s leader has been caught on video admitting.

The video was posted by Huffpost.com on Thursday.

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“We’ve wasted all their f—ing resources to make this rally,” Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was taped saying during the group’s latest rally, held Saturday in Portland, Oregon.

“We want them to waste $2 million,” Tarrio boasts, referring to law enforcement tasked with policing the event.

“And we’ll do it again in two months.”

The video revealed Tarrio referring to a ranking system based in which members earn something called a “fourth-degree” rank by assaulting so-called “antifa” protesters.

“This is a pure optics operation,” Tarrio is on film telling members as the rally kicks off. “If you’re looking for fourth degrees this is not the event to do it.”

The Proud Boys bills its events as political freedom rallies. The events attract crowds of antifa members and other counterprotesters.

Some 700 police from multiple jurisdictions were deployed to Saturday’s rally. There were at least 13 arrests.

Afterward, the group issued a press release admitting, “The gathering was never about bringing carnage or violence to the city of Portland, it was about financially crippling the progressive hotbed until they take action against antifa.”

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler told the Huffington Post, “I have one clear message to anyone who says they’re going to continue wasting the city’s resources over and over again: Stop wasting our time. Stop wasting taxpayer dollars. Stop hurting our businesses. We have a city to run and lives to lead.”