Add five more to the list... Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol riot https://apnews.com/article/capitol-...and-politics-7b27b6550bd0f400aa61893df3386f38 The former top leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group and other members were charged Monday with seditious conspiracy for what federal prosecutors say was a coordinated attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. The latest indictment against Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman, and four others linked to the group comes as the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot prepares to begin public hearings this week to lay out its findings. The indictment alleges that the Proud Boys conspired to forcibly oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power. Tarrio and the others — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola — were previously charged with different conspiracy counts. They are scheduled to stand trial in August in Washington, D.C.’s federal court. The seditious conspiracy charges are among the most serious filed so far, but aren’t the first of their kind. Eleven members or associates of the anti-government Oath Keepers militia group, including its founder and leader Stewart Rhodes, were indicted in January on seditious conspiracy charges in a serious escalation in the largest investigation in the Justice Department’s history. Three Oath Keepers have already pleaded guilty to the rarely used Civil War-era charge that calls for up to 20 years in prison. The indictment alleges that the Oath Keepers and their associates prepared in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 as if they were going to war, discussing things like weapons and training. Tarrio, the group’s top leader, wasn’t in Washington, D.C., when the riot erupted on Jan. 6, 2021, but authorities say he helped put into motion the violence that day. Police arrested Tarrio in Washington two days before the riot and charged him with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December 2020. Tarrio was released from jail on Jan. 14 after serving his five-month sentence for that case. An attorney for Tarrio said his client “is going to have his day in court.” “And we intend to vigorously represent him through that process,” said Nayib Hassan. Defense attorney Carmen Hernendez, who represents Rehl, said her client is “as innocent of these charges as the ones that had already been pending against him.” “Seditious conspiracy requires the use of force, and he never used any force nor thought about using any force,” Hernandez said. More than three dozen people charged in the Capitol siege have been identified by federal authorities as leaders, members or associates of the Proud Boys, whose members describe it as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.” They have brawled with antifascist activists at rallies and protests. Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, who founded the Proud Boys in 2016, sued the Southern Poverty Law Center for labeling it as a hate group. Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president and a member of the group’s national “Elders Council.” Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, is a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Rehl was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia. Pezzola is a Proud Boy member from Rochester, New York. A New York man pleaded guilty in December to storming the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members. Matthew Greene was the first Proud Boys member to publicly plead guilty to conspiring with other members to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote. Greene agreed to cooperate with authorities investigating the attack. Another Proud Boy, Charles Donohoe, of Kernersville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy and assault charges and also agreed to cooperate in the Justice Department’s cases against other members of the extremist group. On the morning of Jan. 6, Proud Boys members met at the Washington Monument and marched to the Capitol before then-President Donald Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters near the White House. Just before Congress convened a joint session to certify the election results, a group of Proud Boys followed a crowd of people who breached barriers at a pedestrian entrance to the Capitol grounds, an indictment says. Several Proud Boys also entered the Capitol building itself after the mob smashed windows and forced open doors. Prosecutors have said the Proud Boys arranged for members to communicate using specific frequencies on Baofeng radios. The Chinese-made devices can be programmed for use on hundreds of frequencies, making it difficult for outsiders to eavesdrop. In December, a federal judge refused to dismiss an earlier indictment charging alleged leaders of the Proud Boys with conspiring to block the certification of Biden’s electoral college win. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly rejected defense attorneys’ arguments that the men were charged with conduct that is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech.
When are they going to charge the skin color officer with a grudge to settle who executed an unarmed female protester on Jan 6?
Now cops shooting unarmed people bothers you haha. She should have complied.... She was not where she was supposed to be... She was climbing through a window... etc...
Yeh. And what would the dem population be if we executed everyone "not where supposed to be." That would thin your herd considerably eh?
Ray RAy, Scaffold Commander, - what up cuz? You still runnin around loose? LOL https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/alex-jones-was-right.363256/page-15#post-5510673
You mean the ex Air-Force woman? This is a military veteran, who was climbing through the broken top half of a door, with a security officer pointing a gun at her and saying STOP! I WILL SHOOT YOU! She was breaking and entering into a federal building with the intent to do harm! How fucking twisted up in the Trump mania was she to get lost in that mess in her head? If someone was breaking into HER home the way she was, would she have NOT shot the intruder? No. She probably would have used an AK and killed several other people through her sheetrock walls. Now she is dead. Good riddance.
Not to me. She served her country, and then turned traitor by storming the capitol to do God-knows-what once inside. She could have been the one who would have "hung Mike Pence" from a makeshift gallow. Threat eliminated.