As Del. Dan Cox (R-Frederick) worked the crowd at his primary victory party this summer, a young man wearing a black polo shirt with a Proud Boys insignia offered a handshake and small gift to the newly minted GOP nominee for governor.
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“Here, this is a present from Maryland Proud Boys to you,” the young man said in video footage publicly posted on a Dan Cox Vimeo account, naming the local chapter of a far-right extremist group with a history of violence. Members of the Proud Boys were involved in storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Cox accepted the gift, inspecting the small, black comb, then asked the man’s name and shook his hand.
“Nice to meet you,” Cox said, before greeting other supporters gathered in the Emmitsburg Ambulance Company in Frederick County on July 19 to watch the Trump-aligned Republican candidate trounce a moderate primary opponent.
