BREAKING: Four Proud Boys, including leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack.
A federal jury in Washington, D.C. found Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl and Joseph Biggs guilty of conspiring to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden and using force and prior planning to hinder the 2020 presidential election certification.
FILE - Proud Boys leader Henry"Enrique" Tarrio wears a hat that says The War Boys during a rally in Portland, Ore., on Sept. 26, 2020. The seditious conspiracy trial of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants is coming at a pivotal time for Justice Department's investigation and prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.According to charging papers, Nordean, Rehl, Biggs and Pezzola gathered with over 100 Proud Boys near the Washington Monument on Jan.
Prosecutors said Tarrio exhorted protesters to violence, posting before Jan. 6,"Let's bring this new year in with one word in mind: revolt." In text messages, he later compared Proud Boys' actions that day to those of George Washington, Sam Adams and Benjamin Franklin. Only two of the five defendants — Rehl and Pezzola — testified in their own defense. Rehl said he knew of no plans for violence and encouraged no one to engage with police.
"I can't say it was overtly encouraged, but it was never discouraged," Greene said of violence,"And when it happened, it was celebrated." And after the attack, Bertino, who was recovering from an injury, messaged Tarrio,"I wanted to be there to witness what I believed to be the next American revolution…I'm so proud of my country today."
"A conspiracy is nothing more than an agreement with an unlawful objective," Mulroe said of the law,"A conspiracy can be unspoken. It doesn't have to be in writing, hashed out around the table, or even in words. It can be implicit."
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