Daily News | Pennsylvania Proud Boys played a big role in Jan. 6 planning; key takeaways from Capitol riot sedition trial
with various crimes including illegally demonstrating on Capitol grounds. They include Isaiah Giddings, 31, and Freedom Vy, 37, both of Philadelphia, and Brian Healion, 33, of Upper Darby.
But during days testifying under sympathetic questioning from his attorney Carmen Hernandez, prosecutors uncovered new police bodycam footage that appeared to show Rehl spraying what looked like pepper or bear spray at an officer. in an interview published Friday. “On cross that all fell apart when the video came out and it showed that he was spraying towards the cops.”During his time on the witness stand, Rehl testified that when he became the group’s leader in 2018 he’d hoped to turn the chapter from a group that primarily operated as a men’s drinking club into a more regimented organization — one involved in political activism and better about weeding out hotheaded recruits prone to causing trouble.
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