Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for orchestrating the group’s participation in the Jan. 6 attack.
The Proud Boys were ‘lined up behind Donald Trump and willing to commit violence on his behalf,’ prosecutor tells jurors.Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was found guilty of seditious conspiracy in a separate case, was also sentenced in May to 18 years in prison. Prosecutors, who had sought 25 years for Rhodes, are appealing his sentence and the punishments of other members of his anti-government militia group.
Tarrio’s lawyers had denied that the Proud Boys had any plan to attack the Capitol. They argued that prosecutors used Tarrio , who spoke at the “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House on Jan. 6 and urged his supporters to “fight like hell.”“There is zero evidence to suggest Tarrio directed any participants to storm the U.S. Capitol building prior to or during the event,” his attorneys wrote in court papers. “Participating in a plan for the Proud Boys to protest on January 6 is not the same as directing others on the ground to storm the Capitol by any means necessary.
Police arrested Tarrio in Washington two days before the Jan. 6 riot on charges that he had defaced a Black Lives Matter banner during an earlier rally in the nation’s capital, but law enforcement officials later said he was arrested in part over concerns about the potential for unrest during the election certification. He complied with a judge’s order to leave the city after his arrest.
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