The proposed jail sentences would nearly double the lengthiest Jan. 6 sentence handed down to date.
Prosecutors spent much of the memo describing the trauma the attack caused for members of Congress and outnumbered police officers, many of whom were injured defending the building. | Jose Luis Magana/AP PhotoProsecutors are seeking 33-year prison sentences for former Proud Boys chair Enrique Tarrio and his ally Joe Biggs, who they say aimed to foment a revolution on Jan. 6 to keep Donald Trump in power.
Both Tarrio and Biggs were convicted of seditious conspiracy in May by a jury who also found allies Philadelphia Proud Boy leader Zachary Rehl and Seattle Proud Boy leader Ethan Nordean guilty of the grave offense. Prosecutors are seeking 30 years for Rehl and 27 years for Nordean. Prosecutors spent much of the memo describing the trauma the attack caused for members of Congress and outnumbered police officers, many of whom were injured defending the building. The attack, which the Justice Department says was sparked in significant ways by the Proud Boys, left a stain on American democracy. It was, in part, why prosecutors are urging the judge to deem their conduct “terrorism” — a designation that would result in sharply increased sentences.
But prosecutors cast the group’s actions as significantly more calculated and sinister. They described the group as launching an “assault” on the Capitol that started at 10 a.m., when a group of 200 carefully selected members of the Proud Boys amassed at the Washington Monument. They marched down the mall, away from the site of Trump’s rally, and to the lightly defended Capitol grounds, where they whipped up the crowd into a frenzy before rioters stormed the barricades.
Tarrio was not present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, in part because he was arrested and ordered to stay away from Washington two days earlier when he arrived in the city. Prosecutors revealed evidence at trial that Tarrio expected this arrest since he had maintained a relationship with a D.C. Police Officer, Shane Lamond. Lamond had tipped Tarrio to the police’s efforts to charge him for burning a Black Lives Matter flag in December, after a pro-Trump march.
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