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One week before scores of Proud Boys helped lead a pro-Trump mob in a violent assault on the Capitol last year, Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the group, and some of his top lieutenants held a foul-mouthed video conference with a handpicked crew of members.
The meeting, on Dec. 30, 2020, marked the founding of a special new chapter of the Proud Boys called the Ministry of Self-Defense. The team of several dozen trusted members was intended, Mr. Tarrio told his men, to bring a level of order and professionalism to the groups upcoming march in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, that had, by his own account, been missing at earlier Proud Boys rallies in the city.
Over nearly two hours, Mr. Tarrio and his leadership team many of whom have since been charged with seditious conspiracy gave the new recruits a series of directives: Adopt a defensive posture on Jan. 6, they were told. Keep the normies or the normal protesters away from the Proud Boys marching ranks. And obey police lines.
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There was one overriding problem with the orders: None of them were actually followed when the Proud Boys stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/proud-boys-ignored-orders-given-at-pre-jan-6-meeting/ar-AAYTvJ7
Color me shocked.
msongs
(67,406 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Don't be fooled.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,616 posts)All the evidence against Tarrio suggests exactly the opposite- the plan was to rile up the normies to storm the Capitol, so the PBs could slip in and get to the leadership.
dutch777
(3,019 posts)Treasonous scum!