Fresh out of federal prison, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio suggests he’s still in charge as the far-right organization looks to regroup.
The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
In 2018, the FBI labeled the Proud Boys an extremist group with white nationalism ties. Who are they and should they have been released from prison?
On his first day back in office, the president pardoned or commuted the sentences of those convicted over their roles in the January 6, 2021, riot.
Pardoned Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been pictured for the first time since being freed from his 22-year sentence for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — calling for those behind the mass convictions to “feel the heat” and “pay for what they did.”
President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol and suggests there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys extremist group,
We need to find and put them behind bars for what they did. They need to pay for what they did,’ Enrique Tarrio exclaimed on Tuesday night, referencing those who investigated the January 6 Capitol attack.
On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and suggested there could be a place in US politics for the Proud Boys extremist group.
At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters
The red MAGA hat has transformed into a symbol of the country’s willingness to absorb almost anything — any lie, any grievance — into a new, sour normal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The former leader of the Proud Boys and the founder of the Oath Keepers have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were wiped away by a sweeping order from President Donald Trump benefiting more than 1,500 defendants.