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The Proud Boys is a North American far-right, neo-fascist militant organization that promotes and engages in political violence. [1] [16] [17] The group's leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the federal government of the United States, including its constitutionally prescribed transfer of presidential power. [18]
Founded in 2016 by former journalist and podcaster Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of VICE News, the Proud Boys bill themselves as a “Western Chauvinist” men’s drinking club.
On 21 November 2018, shortly after news broke that the FBI had reportedly classified the Proud Boys as an extremist group with ties to white nationalists, McInnes said that his lawyers had advised him that quitting might help the nine members being prosecuted for the incidents in October and he said "this is 100% a legal gesture, and it is 100% ...
Both Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes are now free after President Donald Trump used his first day in office to pardon over 1,500 defendants ...
Henry "Enrique" Tarrio [4] (US English: / ˈ t ɑːr i oʊ / TAR-ee-oh; US Spanish: ; born 1983 or 1984) is an American convicted seditionist and far-right activist. From 2018 to 2021, he was the chairman of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist organization that promotes and engages in political violence in the United States.
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the recently pardoned leader of the Proud Boys who is now free from prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy alongside a cadre of the extremist group’s ...
She testified that "He started drinking very heavily and inundated himself with Fox News day and night." [13] According to federal prosecutors, Pezzola was among a group of about 100 Proud Boys who gathered near the Washington Monument at about 10:00 a.m. on January 6, 2021, led on the scene by Ethan Nordean.
A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago.