Ex-Proud Boys leader Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6 Capitol attack

Author: Editors Desk Source: The Washington Post

September 5, 2023 at 17:52

Prosecutors have asked for a 33-year sentence for ex-Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio. (Allison Dinner/AP)

Convicted of seditious conspiracy, he recruited a group of 200 to march on Capitol, though he wasn’t in D.C. that day

Former Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, convicted of leading the group that one judge called “the tip of the spear that allowed people to end up getting into the Capitol” on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison, the longest sentence yet among the hundreds convicted of disrupting the peaceful transfer of presidential power.

Tarrio, 39, was convicted of seditious conspiracy and obstructing the congressional proceeding meant to confirm the 2020 presidential election as part of a riot that U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said last week broke America’s long democratic tradition of peaceful transfers of power. Tarrio was the last of five Proud Boys to be sentenced after all were convicted in May following a 15-week trial.

Tarrio, of Miami, was arrested and convicted even though he wasn’t in D.C. on Jan. 6. He had been arrested in December 2020 after he burned a “Black Lives Matter” flag torn down from a D.C. church during a protest in the city following President Donald Trump’s defeat. He was banned from the city as a result.

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