Showing posts with label The Proud Boys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Proud Boys. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Stewart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio finally free!


So we finally have an overtune of one of the biggest injustice done to a couple of real true American Patriots. Right from the J/6 capitol Pardons by Trump we now have both Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, ex-Proud Boys boss Enrique Tarrio set free. As we know President Trump granted pardons to more than 1,500 defendants who faced charges in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol event. As both lawyers on both far-right leaders confirmed their release on Tuesday. Mr Tarrio was 16 months into a 22-year prison sentence on seditious conspiracy and other charges, while Rhodes was almost 20 months into an 18-year sentence for the same offense.

“They’ve already been in jail for a long time,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Monday evening about the clemency recipients. “These people have been destroyed.” Unlike many of the J/6 defendants, neither Tarrior or Rhodes were eve inside the Capitol Building during the event and were not even in DC! But they were charged with helping to plot out the attack. During the run-up to the riot, Rhodes and others had stockpiled tactical gear and firearms. He also stepped into restricted Capitol grounds while directing his Oath Keepers militia members as the chaos unfolded. “My only regret is that they should have brought rifles,” Rhodes said on an audio recording obtained by federal investigators. “We should have brought rifles. We could have fixed it right then and there. I’d hang f—ing [Nancy] Pelosi from the lamppost.” Something a lot of people in this country would actually cheer for.

Tarrio had led the Proud Boys, another right-wing group, from 2018 to 2021. He also worked as the Florida state director of Latinos for Trump. Prosecutors had accused Tarrio of playing a critical role in orchestrating the Proud Boys’ rampage at the Capitol, including by ordering “hand-selected members” of the group to attend the “Stop The Steal” Trump rally that preceded the event. Tarrio again was not in Washington, DC the day of the over hyped riot, but prosecutors highlighted text messages he he exchanged with members of the groups. During the Aftermath Tarrio stressed that he didn’t have sympathy for the members of Congress who were forced into hiding. He also said that he didn’t “support” or “condemn” the riot.

In addition to Monday’s clemency grants, Trump directed the Justice Department to ask for the dismissal of about 450 cases that are still being litigated... A Good start to finally ending this nightmare caused by Nancy Pelosi, the DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, the left radicals in congress, media and in Antifa & BLM.


Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Proud Boys leader held for burning Black Lives Matter flag

Enrique Tarrio the face of a major faction of The Proud Boys faces misdemeanour destruction of property charges, police say. He has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city. President Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration. On Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory before he takes office on 20 January.

Mr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will “turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th”, referring to his members as “the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen”. The National Guard has been deployed by Muriel Bowser the so called Washington DC’s mayor who asked them to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control. Ofcourse when it was BLM, and Antifa she didn’t ask for the “National Guard” and let them run wild.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district. The 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, and the destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the president. The mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised. Mr Tarrio who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.

“Let’s make this simple,” he said. “I did it.” But he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.

Mr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents. Earlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December’s protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.

The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign. Kristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: “Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.

“Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.” The city’s police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident. Oh but burning city’s and looting by BLM, and Antifa is allowed, and those criminals are released back to the streets without charges if arrested. Talk about hypocricy folks!