A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for spearheading the U.S. Capitol attack to try to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election
Enrique Tarrio, a Miami resident who was the Proud Boys' national chairman and top leader, is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday. His sentencing wasTarrio wasn't in Washington on Jan. 6. He had been arrested two days before the Capitol riot on charges that heduring an earlier rally in the nation's capital, and he complied with a judge's order to leave the city after his arrest.
Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, acknowledged to the judge at his sentencing hearing that he “messed up” on Jan. 6, but he blamed being “seduced by the crowd” of Trump supporters outside the Capitol and said he’s not a violent person or “a terrorist.” Defense attorneys argued that the Justice Department was unfairly holding their clients responsible for the violent actions of others in the crowd of Trump supporters at the Capitol.
Rehl led at least three other men into the Capitol and into a senator’s office, where he smoked and posed for pictures while flashing the Proud Boys’ hand gesture.
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