![]() 6 and engaging in violence against police. The DOJ also presented videos showing the Proud Boys marching on the Capitol on Jan. And Tarrio said that if the Proud Boys didn't fight back, they would become political prisoners, "hauled off in chains" in a Biden presidency. Nordean suggested the Proud Boys should "fash the fuck out.live free, of die hard." Pezzola said he would "fight until my last breath" against communism. Rehl wrote in messages he hoped that "firing squads" would target "the traitors that are trying to steal the election from the American people." Biggs made repeated calls for war. For them, politics was a "battle between good and evil in the most literal sense," Mulroe said, "no longer something for the debating floor or the polling booth." ![]() In its nearly 2.5 hour closing remarks, the government revisited the Proud Boys' "consistent drumbeat" of calls for violence after it became clear that Trump lost the 2020 election. They had stopped the certification of the election." "To (the defendants), it was mission accomplished. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a national disgrace," Mulroe said. 6, the Proud Boys turned it into a "horrifying spectacle." election certification process has been a "shining example" of democracy for the world for more than 200 years. 6 Capitol attack. They face an array of other serious charges.Ī guilty verdict could bolster the Justice Department's account that the Capitol attack, and those who participated in it, served as a dire threat to American democracy. Of the nine sedition cases the DOJ has tried, excluding the Proud Boys', it has won six convictions - all members of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers. government, a plot allegedly meant to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election votes that ultimately culminated in the Jan. Tarrio and four lieutenants are charged with entering a seditious conspiracy against the U.S. The Proud Boys are a far-right extremist group self-described as “Western chauvinists,” or “men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world." Since its 2016 founding, members of the group have been a fixture at violent demonstrations across the country. More than three months since its start, the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial is nearing its close as government prosecutors and defense attorneys make their final cases to the jury. "What you have are a lot of chats that are designed to inflame your anger for these people, to make you dislike them." 6," Nordean attorney Nick Smith told the D.C. ![]() "This group of people had no idea what they were doing right up to Jan. Attorney Conor Mulroe.īut defense attorneys for the Proud Boys on trial - Ethan Nordean, Joe Biggs Zachary Rehl, Dominic Pezzola and former national chairman Enrique Tarrio - suggested the government's evidence is flimsy and that the defendants had "no plan." "These defendants saw themselves as Donald Trump’s army, fighting to keep their preferred leader in power no matter what the law or the courts had to say about it," said Assistant U.S. 6, 2021, two months after then-President Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, members of the right-wing extremist Proud Boys were “thirsting for violence and organizing for action," the government said Monday in closing arguments for the historic trial of five members of the group. Watch Video: Former Wisconsin Proud Boy member saw bigotry and bullying
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