#PROUD BOYS

[smashing-yng-man]

[liberalsarecool]

He claimed he was 'seduced by the mob'. That curiosity got the best of him. 💯🐂💩

Proud Boys are cowards. Enjoy prison.

[antifainternational]

C'mon, sing it! The man who shot Tiny Toese He shot Tiny Toese He was the bravest of them all... And very shortly he'll be released from prison! So the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund put some money together to thank him for his service defending the community and to help him transition back to the world! Story in link above; maybe you'd like to assist the Defence Fund with helping out other anti-fascist heroes in a tight spot?

[saywhat-politics]

He was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his seditious conspiracy conviction — the lengthiest sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant.

[afriblaq]

Lt. Shane Lamond, a D.C. cop tasked with monitoring extremist groups, was found guilty of leaking police secrets to Enrique Tarrio, the national chairman of the far-right Proud Boys militia, in relation to the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill—and then he lied about it.

Lamond provided Tarrio with ‘real-time updates’ on the police investigation into the Proud Boys’ burning of a stolen Black Lives Matter banner in 2020, helping Tarrio stay ‘one step ahead of law enforcement,’ according to the prosecutor.

The trial also revealed that Lamond tipped Tarrio off to his arrest warrant being signed and informed him if Proud Boy members would be charged in connection to the insurrection.

The former officer was convicted on one count of obstruction of justice and three counts of making false statements. He’ll be sentenced on April 3, 2025.

[odinsblog]

Once upon a time, Mr. Joe Biggs had a little something to say about people going to prison and being allowed to vote, and some other things…

Welp …… let’s just say it did not age well 😬

Aaaaand, SCENE!

SN: While a VERY big part of me is truly relishing seeing racist, Trump-loving bigots get sentenced for their treasonous crimes, we would all do well to remember that any one of us who isn’t super wealthy is quite possibly only one policeman’s lie or piece of planted evidence away from a similar fate of being sent to prison—I’m thinking about many of the innocent Black men and women who were imprisoned because of a racist jury, or the innocent women and LGBTQ people who were imprisoned because of misogyny, homophobia and transphobia. Rape isn’t a joking matter. Rape isn’t something a prisoner deserves for being in prison. And prisoners actually dO deserve to have edible food, and yes, they really should be able to vote (if not for a true democracy, then at least to avoid prison gerrymandering). The prison system in America is honestly wayyy fucked up. It is. But Imma keep it 💯for rn I’m enjoying seeing these treasonous white supremacists get their well deserved comeuppance. Weird how these cowardly Republicans never seem to care about the wellbeing of people until it’s their neck on the chopping block. Cry harder, babies.

[pinoypesilat]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Rachel Leingang at The Guardian:

In his first interview after his release from prison, Enrique Tarrio thanked Donald Trump for pardoning him for his role in planning the January 6 riot, saying he “literally gave me my life back”. Now that he is out, the Proud Boys leader wants revenge, he told Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist host of InfoWars. “The people who did this, they need to feel the heat, they need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted,” Tarrio said. “Success is going to be retribution,” he added. “We gotta do everything in our power to make sure that the next four years sets us up for the next 100 years.” In the days since the leaders of far-right militia groups were freed from prison, they and their organizations are regrouping and figuring out how to build back momentum now that Trump is back in office. They are emboldened by the mass pardons for the insurrectionists and are planning their next moves. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, showed up at the US Capitol this week, dining at a Dunkin inside the Longworth House office building. The Associated Press reported that Rhodes “met with at least one lawmaker during his visit and chatted with others” while on Capitol Hill. He gave interviews outside the DC jail, where he said he wanted prosecutors to be tried for their “crimes”. Rhodes was not pardoned – his sentence was commuted, and he was released early. He wants a full pardon. Rhodes suggested January 6 should be remembered in history as “patriots day”. He has not expressed regret for his role in the riots, saying his members were entrapped and their responses to police force were understandable. “We were there to protect Trump supporters from Antifa,” he said in a video after his release. When Rhodes was sentenced in 2023, the judge in his case said: “You are smart, you are charismatic and compelling and frankly that’s what makes you dangerous. The moment you are released, whenever that may be, you will be ready to take up arms against your government.” Tarrio and Rhodes had some of the longest sentences given to January 6 defendants, at 22 years and 18 years, respectively. Both were charged with seditious conspiracy for their roles helping plan the attack. Members of both the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers infiltrated the Capitol on January 6, and some of them engaged in violence. The Oath Keepers “plotted for months to violently disrupt the peaceful transfer of power” and the Proud Boys “played a central role in setting the January 6 attack on our Capitol into motion”, attorneys for the government said during the cases against group members.

Enrique Tarrio, the leader of far-right domestic terrorist hate group Proud Boys, vows for revenged after being pardoned by insurrection-inciter Trump.

[smashing-yng-man]

[liberalsarecool]

They are all traitors. They enjoy being scumbags.

The worst people have complete access to Republican leaders. #ProudBoys

[silencedogood1969]

You stood beneath a stolen flag,

a coward’s grin behind your mask,

breaking glass like you broke your oath,

spilling blood, spilling truth, spilling both.

The Capitol stood like a sentinel of time,

until you tore it down, crime by fucking crime.

The floors ran red where history walked,

and democracy bled as your chants mocked.

You came as a mob, a tide of rage,

hands on riot shields, fists on the stage.

Tear gas kissed the marble halls,

while “patriots” desecrated sacred walls.

Tarrio, you fucking coward,

Rhodes, you spineless son of a bitch.

Barnett, who pissed on freedom

while democracy screamed in the ditch.

QAnon prophets in horned disguise,

Nazis and “militia” with vacant eyes.

You called it liberty, called it war,

but all you left were shattered doors.

Then the ink of the pen, the coward’s decree,

fifteen hundred pardons for your fucking heresy.

Trump stood tall on lies today,

“Unify!” he cried, while justice decayed.

The audacity of that son of a bitch,

to pardon the mob and their seditious itch.

“Merit-based justice,” he dared to say—

yet he handed treason a golden bouquet.

He spat in the face of every cop who stood,

every drop of blood spilled in those halls of wood.

He pardoned the wreckers, the rioters, the damned,

and gave democracy its final backhand.

Where were you, McConnell, when the blood dried?

Where were you, Thune, when democracy cried?

Greene, you cheered; your voice rang clear—

you gutless motherfuckers, complicit in fear.

Your silence, your nods, your partisan games,

have carved your legacy into the flames.

You are the ghosts of this dying nation,

mute accomplices to its damnation.

And to you who stayed silent, stayed home that day,

clutching your morals as the country frayed,

spare me your protests, your outrage, your blame—

this fire’s on you; you stoked the flame.

You fucking stood back, let them torch the house,

and now you want to cry about the ashes.

Don’t you dare whisper a single goddamn word—

you let others fight while the country burned.

The tear of glass, the battering ram,

the fists that struck, the shields that slammed.

The cries of fear, the clash of will,

the officers falling, the chambers still.

They stormed the gates with malice bright,

and made a coup of that January night.

Freedom fell with every cheer,

the sound of treason in the atmosphere.

And for those who fell defending the line,

we carry their memory through space and time.

But let me tell you something, loud and true:

You may pardon the guilty, but we’re coming for you.

Two years from now, we’ll clear the House;

we’ll take your seats and call you out.

We’ll vote, we’ll march, we’ll raise our fists,

we’ll break the chain of your accomplice list.

And four years from now, your reign will end,

this nightmare gone, this wound will mend.

You’ve made a coup the morning’s norm,

treason an acceptable form,

but you don’t get the final say—

we’ll take this country back one day.

Traitors, cowards, you hollowed the flag,

turned stars to scars, left stripes to sag.

You spat on the graves of those who fought,

and shredded the ideals they thought were taught.

Your pardons are nothing, your names will fade,

while the strength of the people sharpens its blade.

This isn’t your country—it never was.

It belongs to the dreamers, to the cause.

So hear this now, from sea to sea:

We are America, the land of the free.

You tore it down, but we’ll rebuild—

your names forgotten, your dreams killed.

This is the anthem of those betrayed,

a promise to history: you won’t evade.

For every flag, for every vote,

for every tear in the words we wrote.

True patriots rise, unbroken, free—

the soul of this nation will always be.

We are coming.

We are rising.

We are America.

[animentality]

[democracyunderground]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Edward Helmore at The Guardian:

The former head of the Metropolitan police intelligence unit in Washington DC has been found guilty of tipping off Enrique Tarrio – the imprisoned, one-time leader of the Proud Boys – that a warrant was out for his arrest before the January 6 Capitol attack in 2021. Shane Lamond has been charged with tipping off Tarrio, who at the time of the Capitol attack was wanted for the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner. Tarrio is currently serving 22 years after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol riot. Tarrio was arrested when he arrived in Washington on a flight from Miami two days before the attack. During Tarrio’s testimony to the court, he said he wanted to travel to Washington before the January 6 attack to “get this over with” – and to set up a “circus tent” to use his arrest as a “marketing ploy”. Lamond was found guilty on Monday of four counts, including one of obstruction of justice and three of lying to investigators. The verdict followed a bench trial that featured testimony from Tarrio, who maintained he had been contemporaneously lying to his fellow Proud Boys about receiving information from a source in the Washington DC police department. A federal grand jury charged Lamond in May 2023 with obstructing the investigation into the burning of the banner a month before the Capitol attack – when the Proud Boys were roaming the streets of Washington DC for a pro-Donald Trump event. During Lamond’s trial, prosecutors said that the former police officer acted as a “double agent” for the Proud Boys. Tarrio and Lamond communicated “at least 500 times using cloud-based messaging services”, the indictment alleged, including 101 messages on Telegram that were set to disappear. Lamond’s defense said that their client’s communications with Tarrio were a part of his job. But prosecutors showed that Lamond wrote of his affinity for the Proud Boys. In those communications, Lamond said he supported the group and did not “want to see your group’s name or reputation dragged through the mud”, an indictment alleged.

According to the indictment, Lamond had also advised Tarrio that he tried to convince another unit within the Washington DC police department that the Proud Boys were not racist. “I told them you are made up a lot of Latinos and blacks so not a racist thing. If anything I said it’s political but then I drew attention to the Trump and American flags that were taken by Antifa and set on fire,” Lamond wrote in an alleged message contained in the indictment. “I said all those would have to be classified as hate crimes too.”

Shane Lamond, the former head of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia’s intelligence unit, was convicted of tipping off former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio before the January 6th Insurrection attacks.