The Proud Boys chief led a violent bullying campaign here for months before January 6.
Enrique Tarrio wasn’t in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, a fact his defense lawyers pointed to as they defended him against charges related to that day’s attack on the Capitol. It didn’t work: the former Proud Boys leaderfor his conviction on charges of seditious conspiracy and obstructing the congressional proceeding meant to confirm the 2020 presidential election, with a federal judge describing him as a key figure in recruiting and encouraging people to breach the Capitol.
Dominic Pezzola among Proud Boys in DC in December 2020. Pezzola was recently sentenced to ten years for his role in the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Photograph by Evy Mages It’s important to remember why Tarrio wasn’t in town on the day of the riot: because he’d been arrested two days earlier on charges of property destruction relating to his presence at a pro-Trump rally in December 2020, when members of his group
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