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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio found guilty of Jan. 6 sedition plot Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was convicted on Thursday of orchestrating a plot for members of his far-right extremist group to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election. A jury in Washington, D.C., found Tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy after hearing from dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases brought in the stunning attack that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, as the world watched on live TV. It’s a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Democrat Joe Biden out of the White House at all costs. The charge carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years. Tarrio was a top target of what has become the largest Justice Department investigation in American history. He led the neo-fascist group — known for street fights with left-wing activists — when Trump infamously told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during his first debate with Biden. 00:00 01:18 Tarrio wasn’t in Washington on Jan. 6, because he had been arrested two days earlier in a separate case and ordered out of the capital city. But prosecutors said he organized and directed the attack by Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol that day. Prosecutors told jurors the group viewed itself as “Trump’s army” and was prepared for “all-out war” to stop Biden from becoming president. The Proud Boys were “lined up behind Donald Trump and willing to commit violence on his behalf,” prosecutor Conor Mulroe said in his closing argument. Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was found guilty of seditious conspiracy. AP The backbone of the government’s case was hundreds of messages exchanged by Proud Boys in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that show the far-right extremist group peddling Trump’s false claims of a stolen election and trading fears over what would happen when Biden took office. As Proud Boys swarmed the Capitol, Tarrio cheered them on from afar, writing on social media: “Do what must be done.” In a Proud Boys encrypted group chat later that day someone asked what they should do next. Tarrio responded: “Do it again.” “Make no mistake,” Tarrio wrote in another message. “We did this.” Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was convicted for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. REUTERS Defense lawyers denied there was any plot to attack the Capitol or stop Congress’ certification of Biden’s win. A lawyer for Tarrio sought to push the blame onto Trump, arguing the former president incited the pro- Trump mob’s attack when he urged the crowd near the White House to “fight like hell.” “It was Donald Trump’s words. It was his motivation. It was his anger that caused what occurred on January 6th in your beautiful and amazing city,” attorney Nayib Hassan said in his final appeal to jurors. “It was not Enrique Tarrio. They want to use Enrique Tarrio as a scapegoat for Donald J. Trump and those in power.” Tarrio, a Miami resident, was charged and tried with four other Proud Boys: Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter leader. Rehl led a group chapter in Philadelphia. Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Pezzola was a group member from Rochester, New York. Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio protest Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was tried with four other Proud Boys. AP The Justice Department hadn’t tried a seditious conspiracy case in a decade before a jury convicted another extremist group leader, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, of the Civil War-era charge last year. Over the course of two Oath Keepers trials, Rhodes and five other members were convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors said was a separate plot to forcibly halt the transfer of presidential power from Trump to Biden. 727 What do you think? Post a comment. Three defendants were acquitted of the sedition charge, but convicted of obstructing Congress’ certification of Biden’s electoral victory. The Justice Department has yet to disclose how much prison time it will seek when the Oath Keepers are sentenced next month. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Ada (#0)
2016 was a fluke. In 2012 I watched Ron Paul be destroyed in the media. I watched the vote counts be altered, and the machines have problems that should never have happened. In 2014, I watched the same thing happen in my area and in 2016, there were issues, too. I watched the same pattern in my area, so called democrat and so called republican observers setting up a voting area that wasn’t ready to take votes at all. Yet when I called the secretary of state’s office their little mindless drone said “There’s nothing to be done, the election is already certified. Goodbye.” Voting only matters if the people in power in your state aren’t corrupt as fuck. In my state, they are corrupt as fuck. It was a republican rout last cycle and now the majority democrat body politic is moving swiftly towards turning my state into a fucking gulag. "Call Me Ishmael" -Ishmael, A character from the book "Moby Dick" 1851. "Call Me Fishmeal" -Osama Bin Laden, A character created by the CIA, and the world's Hide And Seek Champion 2001-2011. -Tommythemadartist
the REAL Gulag was in Soviet Russia. If you were sent there, it was a virtual death sentence. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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