A former chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump trying to overturn the former president's election defeat.
    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What?

      Pretty sure he livestreamed stealing a flag from a historic church and then burning it on their steps… Then he came back to DC and kept announcing where he was on Twitter.

      The gun magazine he just had on him, and because he’s a dumbass he said he only had it to sell to someone.

      You make it out to be a brilliant police sting, when it was the bare minimum of competence.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          While Tarrio himself was not in Washington that day — having recently been ordered to leave the city after being arrested for burning a stolen Black Lives Matter flag in front of a historically Black D.C. church — he encouraged his followers to stay the course at the Capitol.

          https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-gets-longest-sentence-of-any-jan-6-defendant-for-plot-to-attack-capitol/

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              9·
              1 year ago

              Why would this be a debate?

              It’s facts, not opinions. You are wrong and for whatever reason you’re being super weird about it. No one knows who you are, you don’t have to be embarrassed you’re wrong about something.

              • kautau@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                They’re not being weird about it. They’re trying to false flag a bunch of treasonist pieces of shit as some “deeper state” theory which is what all the nazis do when they get caught.

                They’re racist, and their opinions don’t matter. A group of people attempted sedition and treason on the US government. Now they are going to prison for it. They are lucky they aren’t getting the death penalty, which is one of the few times I might say it’s warranted.

                We have a long way to go as a nation. I’m not sure we’ll ever get there, there being where I think the US should be, but don’t fuck with my democracy, however flawed it may be.