The prison term for Enrique Tarrio was the most severe penalty handed down so far to any of the more than 1,100 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack.

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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.

  • Conyak@lemmy.tfEnglish
    18·
    1 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?

    • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
      47·
      1 year ago

      This guy is an ex-leader. There was also the current leader sentenced and the oath keepers leader sentenced last week. There are also division leaders and branch leaders. It’s like there are multiple gangs and multiple sections of each gang that all have leaders.

  • ApeNo1@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    1 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.

  • Erdrick@beehaw.org
    8·
    1 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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    1 year ago

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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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