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(Election) Denial Has Consequences: Proud Boys Get Decades In Prison For Seditious Conspiracy [1]
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Date: 2023-09-07
In November of 2020, two months before Trump's supporters stormed Congress on January 6th in an attempt to prevent the peaceful transition of power to duly elected President Biden, election deniers held a dress rehearsal in DC.
We made the rare move of getting off of the internet and into the streets, and reported out in a two-parter that the event "wasn’t just one last hit of the ol’ Trump Rally high, it was an incitement to overthrow the election, to ignore its results, and keep fighting for Trump." Particularly worrying was that among the attendees "were groups like the Proud Boys, for whom political violence is a prerequisite for advancement within their organization."
Fast forward a few years and this week, leader of the Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio received a 22 year prison sentence for his conviction of seditious conspiracy, the longest yet of the 300 sentences handed down for Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
Other Proud Boy leaders Joe Biggs and Zach Rehl received 17 and 15 years, respectively, for breaching police lines leading others to storm the building and being caught on camera macing police officers before leading others into the Capitol building for a photo shoot while smoking in a senator's office. Dominic Pezzola, the Proud Boy who used a police riot shield to break a Capitol window and let insurrectionists in before filming himself smoking a celebratory cigar inside the Capitol, was sentenced to 10 years last week. In all, 700 years of jail time have been handed down to some 350 insurrectionists.
Hopefully by the time they get out, the rest of us will have figured out how to make it harder for deniers to use the internet and social media to disrupt democracy.
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