Tag Archives: Proud Boys

CNN reports: From the halls of Congress to the dark corners of the internet, charged and violent rhetoric is echoing among some Donald Trump sympathizers ahead of the former president’s appearance in a Miami court on Tuesday FBI special agents across the country assigned to domestic terrorism squads are actively working to identify any possible threats, four law enforcement sources …

The Associate Press reports: A lawsuit can go forward against a Michigan official who flashed a rifle during a public meeting over video conference, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. Patricia MacIntosh is suing Ron Clous, alleging he tried to silence her right to free speech when he displayed the rifle during a 2021 meeting of Grand Traverse County commissioners. …

NBC News reports: A Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant who supervised the intelligence branch of the Washington, D.C., police was indicted this week, charged with tipping off former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio about a pending warrant for his arrest just ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Shane Lamond, 47, was indicted on one count of obstruction …

The Washington Post reports: Christopher Worrell, 52, of Naples, Fla., was found guilty after a five-day bench trial on all seven counts, including felony charges of obstructing Congress’s confirmation of the 2020 presidential election results and assaulting police with a deadly or dangerous weapon by spraying three officers with pepper gel. Worrell interacted with former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” …

NBC News reports: A military veteran who espoused antisemitic views was sentenced to four years in prison Monday on felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from the Capitol riot. Hatchet Speed of Vienna, Virginia, a former Navy reservist who had a “top secret” security clearance and worked for a defense contractor on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced in Washington, D.C., for …

“The fake news ecstatic today because Enrique Tarrio and several of his friends convicted, very serious charges. He faces decades in prison, potentially, and I think the whole damn thing is a sham and a shame. “Seditious conspiracy, obstructing official proceedings, no. Look, he wasn’t even there. I’ve seen the evidence. Granted, I did not sit through all of the …

NBC News reports: A jury has reached a partial verdict for at least some of the defendants in the five members of the far-right Proud Boys organization who are facing charges of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said from the bench Thursday. Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, …

The Associated Press reports: The jury will begin deliberating Wednesday to decide whether the onetime Proud Boys national chairman and four co-defendants are guilty of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors allege was a desperate plot to keep President Donald Trump in the White House after the Republican lost the 2020 election. Prosecutors in Washington have shown jurors hundreds of messages …

The Associated Press reports: A federal jury in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to begin hearing closing arguments on Monday after more than three months of testimony in the seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants. The Justice Department has already secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the founder and members of another far-right extremist …

NBC News reports: A Texas man facing charges in the Jan. 6 riot opened fire last week on sheriff’s deputies who had gone to his home to check on him ahead of his scheduled surrender to the FBI, according to new criminal complaint. Nathan Donald Pelham of Greenville, who initially faced four misdemeanor charges tied to the insurrection, now faces …

Politico reports: Prosecutors did not withhold or “suppress” Jan. 6 security footage — aired in February by Tucker Carlson — from the Proud Boys now on trial for seditious conspiracy, a federal judge ruled late Sunday. U.S. District Court Judge Tim Kelly used his 10-page order to knock down a series of thinly premised but eye-popping allegations lodged by one …

NBC News reports: A federal appeals court panel has affirmed the government’s use of an obstruction charge used against hundreds of defendants arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, though the complex opinion appears likely to result in additional litigation and leaves questions about the future of the use of the statute. A three-judge panel, …

CNN reports: A juror in the federal trial of five Proud Boys members accused of plotting to stop Congress’ certification of the 2020 presidential election has raised fears that she was being followed, according to multiple people familiar with the matter – the latest incident to delay the already monthslong trial. A juror told the court an individual came up …

Cleveland’s Fox affiliate reports: A local church says it was vandalized on Friday ahead of its drag show brunch and story hour planned for April 1. The Community Church of Chesterland said in a press release that its sign was destroyed by Molotov cocktails leaving minimal damage to the church, which was unoccupied at the time, and no injuries. “Despite …

The Associated Press reports: Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to testify for the defense at the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a defense lawyer said in a court …

The New York Daily News reports: A masked protester was arrested during clashing demonstrations outside a Manhattan drag story hour hosted by state Attorney General Letitia James on Sunday, cops said. The gold-masked man was taken into custody around 11:30 a.m. after an assault at the protest outside the LGBTQ Community Center on W. 13th St. in Greenwich Village. He …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson referred to the 2021 Capitol insurrection as the second-biggest scam of his lifetime on Tuesday night. The Fox News host was interviewing a self-professed Proud Boy who trespassed at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the building. Daniel Goodwyn pleaded guilty last month to entering the Capitol and …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A federal judge denied a Jan. 6 defendant’s third motion to be released from pretrial custody on Tuesday – saying he found no violations of constitutional rights at the D.C. Jail that would warrant his release. Last month, Christopher Quaglin – a New Jersey electrician the Justice Department says is a member of the Proud …

The Washington Post reports: A Colorado man prosecutors say was affiliated with the right-wing, anti-government Three Percenters movement pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of assaulting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, admitting that he marched with the Proud Boys, a different far-right group, for several hours before attacking officers. Robert Gieswein, 26, of Woodland Park, Colo., stood …

Law & Crime reports: A 26-year-old member of the far-right Proud Boys organization in Oregon was convicted this week of multiple felonies for his role in inciting and participating in a brawl during a “Patriot Rally” he helped organize in the summer of 2021. Following a three-day trial, Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Amy Baggio on Thursday found Tusitala “Tiny” …