The Justice Division on Friday additionally indicted six members of the far-right nationalist group the Proud Boys with conspiracy to impede the ce
The Justice Division on Friday additionally indicted six members of the far-right nationalist group the Proud Boys with conspiracy to impede the certification of President Biden’s electoral victory and to assault regulation enforcement. The suspects, who had already been charged by legal criticism, have been additionally accused of threatening a federal officer and coming into the Capitol carrying a lethal or harmful weapon, together with a wood ax deal with.
Federal prosecutors stated that Louis Enrique Colon of Missouri, Felicia Konold and Cory Konold of Arizona, and William Chrestman, Christopher Kuehne and Ryan Ashlock of Kansas have been a part of a gaggle of Proud Boys who traveled to Washington in an effort to “cease, delay, and hinder the congressional continuing” on Jan. 6.
They did so after Enrique Tarrio, the self-described nationwide chairman of the Proud Boys, recognized within the indictment as Individual One, stated on social media that members ought to “end up in report numbers” and “unfold throughout downtown DC in smaller groups.”
The division stated that the group coordinated their journey to Washington and stayed collectively in an Airbnb rental close to the town. They introduced and wore matching uniforms and carried paramilitary gear and provides — together with camouflaged fight uniforms, tactical vests with plates, helmets, eye safety and radio gear — into the Capitol, in response to the indictment.
Prosecutors accused the group of working collectively to drive their manner by a line of Capitol Police and thru the boundaries across the constructing. As soon as inside, they traveled as a gaggle by the constructing, the division stated.
Earlier than coming into, a few of them, exhorted the big crowd to behave. “Whose home is that this?” Mr. Chrestman known as. The group responded, “Our home!” When the group yelled to Mr. Chrestman that they wished their home again, Mr. Chrestman shouted, “Take it!”
He additionally threatened an officer who was making ready to file nonlethal munitions into the group, prosecutors stated.