Four members of the far-right Proud Boys group, including former leader Enrique Tarrio, who helped plan the January 6 riots will be sentenced for seditious conspiracy.
Enrique Tarrio is raging online about President Joe Biden's election victory. It's November 2020, a couple of months before the January 6 insurrection.supporter posting on the internet. He's the leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group with perhaps thousands of members ultimately reporting to him.
Variously described as a street gang, a hate group or"kids who were picked last at kickball", the Proud Boys have been designated as a terror group in two countries - Canada and New Zealand. "They had already been garnering public support leading up to January 6, and that helped them translate to them actually directing people unaffiliated with the Proud Boys during the insurrection."A Proud Boys jacket at a demonstration near Freedom Plaza in DC. Pic: AP"Fill the buildings with patriots and communicate our demands," the plan says.
"Have leads and seconds open the doors for the crowd to enter," it says."This might include causing trouble near the front doors to distract guards who may be holding the doors off." Alluding to Mr Trump's remark, the prosecutor added:"They did not stand back. They did not stand by. Instead, they mobilised."
"Those are his words, his thoughts, just minutes after Congress had been forced to stop its work," McCullough said."They did what they'd set out to do." Rehl's lawyer, Carmen Hernandez, said her client came to the nation's capital simply to protest."I submit to you that Mr Rehl came to DC to exercise his First Amendment rights," she told the jury.
"Believe it or not, this entire case is about a six-hour delay of Congress," Roots told the jury."The government makes a big deal out of this six-hour recess."Tarrio, Biggs, Nordean and Rehl were found guilty of seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. The judge declared a mistrial in respect of various other counts in the trial upon which the jury did not reach conclusions.How big are the Proud Boys now?
"But there seems to be a real sense of pride in pushing forward with all their different activities, and they've positioned themselves as a player in the culture wars more broadly."
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