Longtime Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio charged with conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol
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Source: Washington Post
Henry Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the extremist group the Proud Boys, has been indicted on a conspiracy charge in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.Tarrio, 38, who lives in Miami, joins Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes as the two most high-profile individuals charged by the Justice Department in connection with the attack. In recent months, Tarrio has described himself as a former leader of the Proud Boys.The charge against him marks another major move in the multi-pronged investigation by the Justice Department and FBI of the extremist groups who allegedly played large roles in the Jan. 6 violence.
From the start of the investigation the largest in the FBIs history in terms of charged suspects agents have focused on the role that the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers allegedly played in driving the confrontation between supporters of then-President Donald Trump and police stationed outside the Capitol.Tarrio was not at the Capitol that day, and has denied that he or his group organized any violence at the Capitol. He was ordered to stay outside of Washington, D.C., shortly before Jan. 6 as part of his bond conditions after he was arrested for allegedly burning a stolen Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a historic African American church in the city.
The banner was burned the night of Dec. 12, which was the date of an earlier rally by Trump supporters who did not accept the results of the 2020 election. Tarrio pleaded guilty to burning the banner and to attempted possession of a high-capacity ammunition magazine. Efforts to reach Tarrio on Tuesday were not immediately successful. Prosecutors indicted Rhodes in connection with the Capitol attack in January, charging him and 10 other Oath Keepers or associates with seditious conspiracy.
The indictment alleges that Rhodes plotted in late 2020 and early 2021 to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president, guiding a months-long effort to unleash political violence that culminated in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. Rhodes and certain co-conspirators ... planned to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power by January 20, 2021, which included multiple ways to deploy force, the indictment says.Rhodes, 56, remains in jail while awaiting trial. He has pleaded not guilty and has said he did not enter the Capitol, denying any wrongdoing.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/08/enrique-tarrio-indicted-proud-boys/
Original article -
An indictment was returned in U.S. District Court of Washington and docketed Tuesday morning.
Tarrio, 38, who lives in Miami, joins Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes as the two most high-profile individuals charged by the Justice Department in connection with the attack. In recent months, Tarrio has described himself as a former leader of the Proud Boys.
Tarrio was ordered to stay outside of Washington, D.C., shortly before Jan. 6 as part of his bond conditions after he was arrested for allegedly burning a stolen Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a historic African American church in the city. That incident occured during an earlier Dec. 12 rally by Donald Trump supporters in Washington. He pleaded guilty to burning the banner and to attempted possession of a high-capacity ammunition magazine.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)With his "Ha Ha"?
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Scottie Mom
(5,812 posts)Makes me wanna puke.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)mopinko
(70,103 posts)Beastly Boy
(9,341 posts)Were there handcuffs involved in the indictment? No? Then it didn't happen!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)ongoing.
Once you file charges, you have to hand over your game plan, the evidence you have. Damn, I get tired of explaining this simple fact.
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Beastly Boy
(9,341 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)barbaraann
(9,151 posts)The Grand Illuminist
(1,331 posts)is a politically charged hung jury. AKA The Hokoana Effect.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,375 posts)2Gingersnaps
(1,000 posts)but I expect the indictments of the "seditious conspirators" to start rolling in at a fairly steady rate from this point on. I suspect it will speed up after Congress makes it's case to the American public next month.
But they are getting to the end of the clown conspirators, like Podium chuckles. Stewart Rhoades and this scumbag are the dangerous ones. The Brownshirts around the country acting as self appointed "correctives" to public protests that don't say what they want to hear. Run buses off the road in Texas? Cool. Hate Rallies, very cool. Kidnapping plot against female Michigan Gov? Manly. Election officials in Georgia? Sadly necessary. BLM or antifa in Seattle, Portland, Wisconsin or Minnesota? We will have none of that.
Grins
(7,217 posts)Always some hidden gems about other traitors!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)friend of mine in his 80's with no internet & hate's smart phones with a passion, asked me today if the proud boy's was a gay men's group ? laugh'd so damn hard ,thought was going to have a accident !! live's up in the mountains !
GB_RN
(2,355 posts)Permanently!
I never understood how the Goat Keepers, Creeper Centers, Cry Boys, etc, ever had a guy like Enrique here as a leader. Enrique* is NOT one of them - if you catch my drift.
*The article uses his Anglicanized name and puts his birth name in quotes for some reason. I emphasize his birth name rather than his Anglicanized name to illustrate the difference between Tarrio and the Cry Boys: He was born to Cuban-American parents in Miami. - hes definitely Hispanic, and those assholes are your typical white supremacists, who dont usually hang around with those people.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)Escurumbele
(3,392 posts)How does that work? He is fighting against the people he belongs to...and the proud boys are following a guy with the color of skin they hate...its like a comedy show, but with violent people.
Cognitive dissonance anyone?
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)as a way to deflect charges of white supremacy. It seems pretty fake. They hate immigrants and gays. But they hate women most of all. They were even hostile in taking down the tiny "proud girls" group of RW women who ostensibly share most of their beliefs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys
But my favorite fact about them is they chose their name from Aladdin the musical. Listen to the lyrics. This is not a joke.