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Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for the central role he played in organizing a gang of his pro-Trump followers to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.

  • @ApeNo1@lemm.ee
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    181 year ago

    Toy shops across the US have reported a plummet in sales of kids tactical play vests as a large section of the product’s demographic are landing in jail.

  • @Conyak@lemmy.tf
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    161 year ago

    I feel like I read about a leader of the Proud Boys getting sentenced to different times every week. How many “leaders” did they have?

  • @Erdrick@beehaw.org
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    81 year ago

    Great to see consequences for the terrorist acts they committed.
    I can’t help but scratch my head how someone with obvious Latino roots managed to find himself a part of this gang and then to have risen to the top…?
    It is like a real life version of Clayton Bigsby.

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    Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for the central role he played in organizing a gang of his pro-Trump followers to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.

    The penalty imposed on Mr. Tarrio at a three-hour hearing in Federal District Court in Washington was the final sentence to be lodged against the five members of the Proud Boys who were tried on seditious conspiracy charges earlier this year.

    In a series of separate prosecutions — of which Mr. Tarrio’s sedition trial was by far the most important — the Justice Department all but decapitated the group’s national leadership and mostly put an end to its involvement in large-scale and often violent pro-Trump rallies in cities across the country.

    Conor Mulroe, a prosecutor on the case, had urged Judge Kelly to sentence Mr. Tarrio to 33 years in prison, saying that a stiff penalty was needed to prevent extremists from attacking the democratic process in future elections.

    Mr. Mulroe said that Mr. Tarrio has never showed true remorse for the Capitol attack, noting that even as a jury was deliberating his fate he gave an interview in front of thousands of people online declaring that the Proud Boys did nothing wrong on that day.

    Days after weeping at his own sentencing, Mr. Biggs called into a vigil being held outside the municipal jail in Washington that houses several Jan. 6 defendants, describing his punishment as “insane” and declaring, “We gotta stand up and fight — don’t give up.”


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  • QuentinCallaghan
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    41 year ago

    Nice, justice is served. The ultimate serving of justice in this Jan. 6 case will be when Trump goes to jail.

  • Jaysyn
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    11 year ago

    Surely the ringleader & masterminds will get even more than that.