Last modified on Thu 11 Feb 2021 19.42 EST
The US leader of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist group listed as a terrorist organisation in Canada, has praised one of the group’s Australian members as “amazing” after he filmed himself making threats at the workplace of a man who he believed made a negative comment about him on social media.
Members of the Proud Boys in the Albury-Wodonga area, on the New South Wales-Victoria border, have begun showing up at the homes and workplaces of people they claim are involved in a local group of anti-fascists.
In the first of two videos posted online this week, the head of the “borderlands” Proud Boys group, Jarrad Searby, and a group of followers filmed themselves arriving at a car dealership in Wodonga searching for a man they claimed was a member of the group.