The Cluster B Clique Just Got Famous For An 'Assault' In Seattle That Does Not Add Up
Was the incident stupid, or sinister? Either way, it was not detransition activism
Three subjects of our previous reporting have released video of an altercation in a Seattle Park, framing themselves as victims of an unprovoked attack on detransitioners. The incident took place at a location that is famous for antifa organizing.
However, video evidence, timelines, and their own statements raise serious questions about provocation, suggesting they may have intended to document the event for public consumption and self-promotion.
Two of the individuals, Arianna Laureano and Erica ‘Hendrix’ Moise, are being described as “detransitioners” in coverage of the incident. Aside from electrolysis, neither individual has taken any legal or medical steps to reverse their cross-sex identification.
A third member of the group, Leta Boylan, was also present during the altercation. As The Distance explained in our original coverage of the ‘Cluster B Clique’ during March, all three individuals have been rejected by organizers in the detransition advocacy space due to their volatile behavior.
The Distance has previously reported on Mr. Laureano’s messages expressing his desire to harm a female detransitioner by “smash[ing] all of her fucking teeth on a curb”.
We have also reported on Ms. Moise’s role in a police report we assess was fabricated to harm the reputations of two actual detransitioners. We have additionally reported on Ms. Boylan’s “insane” pressure campaign on organizers using that smear.
We now assess the alleged assault in Cal Anderson Park during the evening of 24 June was likely orchestrated to garner social credit and media attention so that the trio could present themselves to the world as courageous opponents of medical transition.
However, Arianna Laureano, Erica ‘Hendrix’ Moise, and Leta Boylan are not the activists they pretend to be. Their actions in Seattle discredit detransition advocacy.
While there does seem to have been aggressive behavior by the crowd in the park, we assess that the Cluster B Clique intentionally provoked the physical response for a ‘viral video’, and that Moise was the first to get physical.
At least one of the three, possibly two, also carried pistols into the park, apparently anticipating a confrontation.
We detect embellishment in their post-incident reporting and public statements. “If it weren’t for the police showing up I would be very dead”, Moise has posted on X. We assess this is another of her overt exaggerations.
The red hat trick
Mr. Laureano wore a red hat to the park with the words “MAKE COMMON SENSE GREAT AGAIN” printed on it. This hat is from the online merchandise shop of Brandi Kruse, host of the UnDivided podcast.
Mr. Laureano made sure to explain this connection to the police officer as he was giving a statement after the incident.
In fact, he managed to keep himself in frame the entire time without ever once capturing the face of any assailant.
We suggest that Laureano’s attention was on himself because his performance on camera was self-promotional.
The red hat appears to have worked as bait. An unnamed man allegedly took Mr. Laureano’s hat during the altercation. On the video, Laureano can be heard demanding the return of his hat.
Laureano’s video caught the attention of Brandi Kruse, which is what we assess he intended. She amplified the video, incorrectly referring to Laureano and Moise as “well-known detransitioners”.
Police arrested one man at the scene. That man reportedly told police he had smoked methamphetamine two hours before the incident. He was taken to the King County Jail on assault charges, but the booking was declined.
We might dismiss that as average policework in Seattle, a city where crime is basically legal at this point, if not for other discrepancies we discovered. We suspect the Seattle Police Department finds the whole affair as sketchy as we do.
We have what appears to be the 911 dispatch audio. “Apparently the victim here was in Cal Anderson taking pictures and videos from some sort of crime scene that happened in the park yesterday, right?” an officer explains at the 0:29.0 mark. “He was confronted by a group who demanded that he stop doing that.”
According to public records from Seattle PD, an aggravated assault case was investigated at 9:32 PM and the report was taken at 12:00 AM in the area of a Felafelville around the corner from Cal Anderson Park. (The website only shows reports for the previous 7 days, so check it out now).
Evidence of prior planning, preparation, and instigation
Mr. Laureano has stated that the trio was “peacefully” vaping on a bench together while he recorded a selfie video. In his selfie video, Laureano asks the other two individuals about a lighter, presumably to share a joint, which is legal in Seattle. They do not discuss a crime scene from the previous day.
Contrary to Laureano’s version of events, third-party video shows that Moise was acting aggressively as they sat on a bench. “I’m from Detroit, bitches! You guys are from nothing!” Moise yelled. This was moments before the first scuffle. It was not included in Mr. Laureano’s self-recorded video that Kruse amplified.
Ms. Moise was belligerent when the alleged assault transpired, and then the trio did not disclose the full context of the assault. Furthermore, video from other people at the scene shows that Moise was the aggressor.
We assess that this image below shows the trio just before the incident. Not only is Mr. Laureano wearing a red, “MAGA-style” hat, Ms. Moise is wearing an “OCCUPY MARS” shirt associated with Elon Musk. Ms. Boylan appears to be holding a sign or placard with Brian Griffin, the erudite dog from Family Guy. We understand that it had a message about LGB identities on it.
The obvious implication is that the Cluster B Clique was trying to have an altercation with transgender people or supporters that they could record for social media clout. We assess that two of the three traveled to Seattle on the day of the incident intending to visit Cal Anderson Park together that evening.
Boylan lives in Wisconsin. Moise lives in Michigan. Only Mr. Laureano lives in the Seattle area. Sources close to Boylan tell The Distance that she left for Washington state on Wednesday morning. Before she left, Boylan told her partner of ten years that she was going to appear at “an event”.
Not a conference, or a gathering, but “an event”.
Ms. Moise announced her plans to travel to Seattle and visit Mr. Laureano a month ago. On Tuesday, 23 June, the day before flying to Seattle, Ms. Moise posted on X that she was planning on “Pissing off trans people”. We note that Moise posted about her intentions with an airplane emoji, indicating that she was flying somewhere to carry out this provocation.
“It was wild. My very first day in Seattle”, Moise posted on X after the incident. We submit this timing was not a coincidence. Ms. Moise wanted to use the balance of her time in Seattle amplifying her own version of the incident.
We further assess that Laureano and possibly Boylan carried firearms in an effort to control the situation they were creating. Mr. Laureano has frequently mentioned his habit of carrying a firearm in Seattle and he has posted images of his gun whenever he feels threatened by someone telling the truth about him online. We used one of those images in our very first reporting on the Cluster B Clique:
Arianna Laureano And The 'Cluster B Clique' That Wants To Destroy Detransition Advocacy
Arianna Laureano is a Seattle area man who allegedly turns 35 next month. While he describes himself as a homosexual transsexual (HSTS) in some forums, on various platforms like GroobyGirls, Shemalez, and TrannyDemonTV, Mr. Laureano identifies as bisexual and transgender instead.
Armed confrontation?
According to Mr. Laureano, the attack began with someone throwing water on him. This is reasonable, since there is a water feature close at hand.
In this video, however, we can clearly see that Ms. Moise escalated the physical altercation when she jumped off the bench to attack the long-haired individual in response to the water. Ms. Boylan responded only very slowly, whereas Mr. Laureano got up a few seconds later and stood by, watching. (The video jumps a bit because we have clipped it to keep the action continuously in-frame with this aspect ratio.)
Moments later, video shows Ms. Boylan choking the long-haired person from behind while they are grappling with Moise. In audio of this clip, someone, possibly Ms. Moise, is making a strange noise, a kind of “Wooo!” battle cry while this is happening. We assess that this video was likely recorded by the person in the orange shirt standing behind the bench.
After Moise breaks contact with the long-haired person, someone, possibly Moise, seems to yell “She has a gun!”, perhaps in order to de-escalate through escalation. (Credit to this person for the slowed-down video clip).
We assess from this next video that Ms. Moise continued to be the aggressor, and took a tumble face-first onto the concrete stairs in front of the Gatehouse. Moise’s eye injury may have taken place at this time. We have widened this video out from the version that was on social media in order to get a better view. Note that the man in the maroon pants, the one that Moise goes after and then misses, falling face-first, is the man who got arrested.
While this scuffle is going on, Laureano is already taunting people. He does not seem to fear for his life. Also, note that Ms. Boylan appears to reach under her skirt in the video above. As explained below, we assess she may have been furtively reaching for a pistol in a thigh holster.
A gap exists in the video coverage, so that we are missing what happened between two different scuffles. After the first altercation seen above, the trio apparently moved around the Gatehouse, from the southeastern side to the western side, where Mr. Laureano was knocked down in a second scrum.
In this video, Ms. Moise is on her feet defending Laureano, who is shouting “Leave me alone!” Moise appears to engage in a kicking contest with the long-haired individual with whom Boylan was wrestling earlier.
Ms. Boylan was then recorded holding what appears to be a pistol. On X, Moise has claimed “That’s a phone” in Ms. Boylan’s hand, but it sure looks like a gun on the video. If true, she might have risked committing a gross misdemeanor, here, because she was in no immediate danger that we can see.
We have slowed down this video clip to 1/4 speed. We observe Ms. Boylan reaching under her skirt for what appears to possibly be a handgun. The video is from a local LGBTQ+ activist Instagram channel. We assess that if it was a gun, then her earlier furtive gesture, reaching under her skirt, was an act of armed indecision during the first scrum.
Of course, we could be wrong, and Boylan was perhaps really holding a camera in this clip. However, while we are aware of commercial thigh holsters for handguns, they are unusual for cameras.
A witness reported seeing a magazine containing hollow point bullets. Mr. Laureano has admitted carrying such ammunition as well. We see nothing unusual about that in itself. Hollow point rounds are entirely normal in concealed carry. (Ms. Boylan may have erred by forgetting how the ‘concealed’ part works.)
The unusual part is that at least one, possibly two of these three people appear to have possibly brought guns to an event where they apparently intended to provoke, or at least risk, physical confrontations that they could record on camera for social media likes and shares.
According to the “community” in question, both Boylan and Moise were “grabbing and pinning” people, who then used pepper spray in response. All three complained of receiving defensive spray in the face. “I was maced [sic] by like 6 different trans identified males, beaten all over, kicked in the face multiple times, and was completely blinded by being maced [sic] so many times in a row”, Moise posted on X.
We have no doubt this experience was painful and humiliating. However, it does not amount to being “almost murdered”, as Ms. Moise has maintained since the incident.
Embellishment and exaggeration
“They knew Ari,” Moise said later through her X account. “I jumped in front of him and that’s how it started.” From the available evidence, that does not appear to be true. Rather than report the facts like the lawyer she is supposed to be, Ms. Moise has speculated on what “almost fucking” happened.
Ms. Moise posted a video of her black eye on TikTok. We assess that this injury far more likely resulted from a punch than a kick, and that it probably occurred during the initial brawl at the bench.
We have seen some speculation about the object in Moise’s hand here being a makeup brush, but that is incorrect. Mr. Laureano recorded Moise giving him an iPad stylus at the airport and she seems to be holding that object. We assess the injury to Moise’s eye was real enough.
Ms. Moise has already returned to the park with the other two individuals to shoot more video because she clearly wants to make the most she can out of this. On social media, critics are asking why Moise went back to the park at all. Moise has answered by claiming that she had to walk through the park to get to the police station. We find this explanation unconvincing, as the park has streets on all sides.
Ms. Moise says she was “maced [sic] and beaten” and “hit in every way possible” during the altercations, though they did not last long enough for anyone to be truly creative in their assaults. She says her vape pen was stolen.
Also, she really, seriously wants people charged with attempted murder for it.
Under Washington state law as we understand it, a single kick or punch that results in a black eye is almost never enough by itself to establish intent to kill. Courts and prosecutors view such an act as evidence of intent to assault or injure, not to commit murder.
A black eye does not constitute a “substantial step” towards homicide, either. We are not attorneys, but Ms. Moise is one, so she will understand better than we do that her demand for an attempted murder charge is ridiculous.
We expect a professional prosecutor to turn her down, and we expect her to shout about it when that happens. Just like the false police report in Boston, Ms. Moise is not really pursuing justice, here. She is using a criminal reporting process to promote herself through social media.
She shares this character trait with Mr. Laureano, who also says his vape pen was taken along with his hat, glasses, iPhone, and selfie stick. He further reported the attempted theft of his own firearm during this “heinous attack” by “trans”, which left his knees hurting and tore the fabric of his pants.
Here are Laureano’s words. We have added emphasis:
Last night, while peacefully recording video footage in a public space, we were subjected to a vicious, unprovoked physical assault by a group of masked Antifa agitators… One individual delivered a forceful kick directly to Hendrix’s face… Law enforcement personnel who responded… informed me that individuals perceived as critical of transgender ideology… are routinely targeted for severe violence in this area… Officers expanded by explaining there were cache’s of weapons hidden around the park. Officers explicitly warned that continued presence could lead to lethal retaliation. One officer expressed concern that they would be called one day to aide in the recovery of a deceased detransitioned gay man’s body from Cal Anderson Park.
This attempt to cast police as sympathetic with the detransition mission clashes with the King County Jail’s decision not to charge the suspect.
Further, it is quite odd for a police officer to express concern about such a specific scenario. A detransitioned gay man being murdered in a park that is famous for meth heads, antifa violence, and LGBTQ+ demonstrations does not sound like the thing police have in front of their minds.
We assess that Mr. Laureano, the one local member of the Cluster B trio, came up with this idea to provoke ‘trantifa’ on video and convinced the other two individuals to take part in the scheme. At core, this was about becoming ‘famous detransitioners’, even though nobody wore a sign to let their assailants know this about themselves.
Here is the video that Brandi Kruse posted. We note that it is missing the seconds in which the altercation began. Watching just this video, one might think there was only one altercation instead of two. None of these videos show any of the three individuals saying the word ‘detransition’ to anyone.
In our coverage, The Distance has exposed Boylan’s story of becoming a professional whistleblower as a wholesale fabrication. We have revealed her hidden motive for an untrue backstory in a massive unpaid child support bill. Ms. Boylan’s past attempts to disrupt detransition advocacy with Moise and Laureano discredit her as a detransition advocate.
Again, Arianna Laureano and Erica Moise have not undergone a medical detransition or altered their legal documents. A verbal declaration — “I am a detransitioner” — is the entirety of their commitment. Yet both of them simultaneously, and constantly, attack and undermine the detransition experiences of other people.
None of these three people is recognized by detransition advocacy organizations. In fact, all three of them have been rejected as unstable. That vetting has been vindicated. What they just did in Seattle was not detransition advocacy. They are not opposing medical transition.
They are promoting themselves at the expense of genuine detransition advocacy. Their disrepute should be their own to bear. We fear they are going to get someone seriously hurt.
Legal threats from Erica Moise
In our previous coverage of the Cluster B Clique, we revealed that a Boston Police Department report they used to smear two detransitioners was flawed and incomplete from inception. Following the publication of our coverage, Moise made materially false public statements and legal threats against the editor of The Distance. It was a clear attempt to intimidate us from further reporting on her activities.
Ms. Moise falsely claimed that we had never reached out to her for comment in our stories on the Cluster B Clique. However, we have receipts of our attempts to reach her by email, as well as through a direct message on X. Moise blocked the account used to contact her after reading the message. She is quite simply not telling the truth about this matter.
We do not expect the promised lawsuit against The Distance to ever be filed. Moise has yet to even specify which of our claims about her are untrue. We stand by our reporting in its entirety.
Indeed, her latest crime report only deepens our suspicion that Erica Moise wants to make a habit of annoying police departments with false reports in order to amplify her public image as a crusader.
“Today I had to go back to the scene of the crime at Cal Anderson Park to give my official statement to the Seattle Police”, Moise posted in a video on her X account. “I will be pressing charges, and the King County Prosecutor’s Office has no idea how persistent I am.”
We are not holding our breath for a breakthrough in this investigation. Cal Anderson Park is famously part of the so-called CHOP/CHAZ zone, while Seattle is now known nationwide as a lawless city. We assess that the Cluster B Clique chose Cal Anderson Park as an anarchic location where their own actions would be unaccountable.
We assess that Erica Moise started the physical aggression. All three individuals experienced assault and pepper spraying. However, claims of “attempted murder” strain credulity past the breaking point. Moise was clearly spoiling for a fight, and found one.
We reached out to Ms. Boylan for comment and will update if she replies. We also reached out to Ms. Moise, who responded that her legal name is still ‘Hendrix’ (because she has not detransitioned). “Go Fuck Yourself. Don’t ever contact me again unless it’s in response to litigation”, Moise replied.
Ms. Moise has had more than 30 days to carry out her risible threat of litigation against The Distance. We are not holding our breath waiting on her to follow through.
We will continue to monitor this story.
ADDING: As this story went to press, we learned that Arianna Laureano’s “ApostateAri” account had been suspended by X. His “transphobe01” account is still active.
We Have The Cluster B Clique 'Police Report' And It is Not At All What They Claimed
A police report number circulated on X by Erica Moise, Kaitlyn Twing, and Arianna Laureano as putative ‘evidence’ of a serious crime by two detransitioners was a defective report from the outset.