“I told him, ‘Well, then you can’t live here. In an attempt to explain his actions, he told his mother he was “just there because they’re grooming kids.” Amsden gave her son an ultimatum - hoping that the arrest would finally break the hate group’s spell over her son.
Amsden looked through the photos of those arrested and immediately recognized her son.Īfter being bailed out by anonymous donors, Boyce returned home. “I saw this news story come up that said 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested at a rally, and I just knew-I knew he was part of it,” she said. He had previously told her that he was going camping for the weekend and she had no reason to believe otherwise until she saw the news alert about the arrests in Utah. “And that they don’t want him to be a part of their group because his mom has loose lips and a big mouth and he’s never going to get away with anything.”Īmsden recalled the moment she realized her son had taken part in the attempted riot.
“I would love to do whatever I can to out him so that he can’t be a part of it,” she explained to The Daily Beast.
