They’re pro-life and pals with the Proud Boys.
The pair of anti-abortion protesters accused of harassing women at a New York City Planned Parenthood have used the Proud Boys for security and were at the U.S. Capitol on the day of the riot.
New York Attorney General Letitia James slapped Edmee Chavannes and Bevelyn Beatty with civil charges last month, accusing the rabble rousers of regularly intimidating and blocking women from entering a clinic on Bleecker St. James seeks a court order restricting their activities at the clinic.
A source close to the case said Beatty and Chavannes have been a disruptive presence at Planned Parenthoods across the country since 2018. Their social media accounts show they were on the far-right front lines, pushing misinformation to hundreds of thousands of followers that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump.
“They’re like the hottest stars right now” in the world of anti-abortion extremists, the source said, adding that their prolife cause got a boost thanks to James’s lawsuit.
During some of the protests Beatty and Chavannes attended around the country, they were protected by the Proud Boys — a “chauvinist” right-wing gang that authorities say played a key role coordinating the attack on the Capitol.
“Those young men, every time I needed a security detail, they were there for me,” Beatty, 29, told the Daily News.
The Proud Boys, according to the source, are one of the few militant right-wing groups that protests at Planned Parenthood clinics — although they are typically just looking for a fight.
“They didn’t care two bits about abortion, they just wanted to crack heads with Antifa and anarchists,” the source said. The right-wing goons, the source said, started showing up at clinics in the northwest around 2017 and have since surfaced at Planned Parenthoods around the country.
Beatty and Chavannes recently grabbed headlines for allegedly defacing Black Lives Matter murals in Manhattan. The duo first crossed paths with the Proud Boys around June 2020, when they were “ministering the gospel” in a Seattle neighborhood seized by activists protesting police violence
“Proud Boys, we want to thank you guys! The same ones people call Nazis — them Nazis came and they stood…. them guys came strapped up, wrapped up, exercising their 2nd Amendment, holding it down for us, making sure we were safe. So kudos, God bless Proud Boys,” Beatty said in a June YouTube video.
“They provided security,” Chavannes, 40, added.
By Election Day, Beatty and Chavannes were palling around with high-ranking Proud Boys. That night, Beatty said she was with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and other members when they tried to intervene in a robbery.
“All of us were walking together. Just kicking it. It was me, the Proud Boys — just a group of friends,” Beatty said in an Instagram video from the hospital, describing the confrontation.
Beatty was stabbed three times. Two men were also knifed, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Beatty said the attackers were “three young black kids from Antifa.” The D.C. Police gave no indication politics sparked the confrontation. The incident remains under investigation and no arrests have been made, a police spokeswoman said.
Tarrio faces charges in D.C. for possession of extended, empty gun magazines, as well as destruction of property for the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner outside a church. His status atop the Proud Boys has been called into question after it emerged he cooperated with the feds after a 2012 fraud arrest.
The stab wounds didn’t slow Beatty and Chavannes down for long. They, like many Proud Boys, were at the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.
“Me and Edmee went to the Capitol yesterday,” Beatty said the day after the riot. “Did Trump people storm the Capitol? Yes. But did we break into the Capitol? No.”
Beatty said she and Chavannes did not actually enter the Capitol Building and did not approve of the violence.
“Yes we stormed the capitol, but we did NOT break in. Antifa did!” Beatty wrote on Facebook.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said this week that the riot was carried out far-right Trump supporters.
The mayhem, which left five dead including a police officer, did spark a spiritual awakening in Beatty about the danger of lies.
“I do not regret anything I said. They stole that election. (President) Biden is a criminal and a pedophile. And he’s a Communist,” Beatty said.
