_Īssociated Press writer Alanna Durkin Richer in Boston contributed to this report.
Jurors are expected to hear several more days of testimony from defense witnesses before they hear closing arguments. Prosecutors rested their case on March 20. Pezzola was a Proud Boys member from Rochester, New York. Rehl was president of the Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia.
Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter leader. On January 6, 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump attempted to overturn his November 2020 election loss to Joe Biden by attacking the U.S.
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Later that day, someone asked in an encrypted group chat what they should do next.Īlso on trial with Tarrio are Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. “Do what must be done,” Tarrio wrote on social media as the mob stormed the Capitol. 6 and celebrating the attack on the Capitol and their role in it. Hundreds of privately exchanged messages shown to jurors show the Proud Boys becoming increasingly agitated as Trump’s legal challenges failed in the weeks leading up to Jan. Two other former Proud Boys members, who agreed to cooperate with the government, also testified they didn’t know of any specific plan to storm the Capitol.īut Bertino, a former regional leader from North Carolina who pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy, told jurors that the group plotted to violently prevent Biden from taking office because they were trying to “save the country” from what they feared would be a tyrannical government. Tarrio had been arrested in a separate case days earlier, but authorities say he helped put into motion the violence that day. Tarrio, a Miami resident who served as national chairman of the group, and the other Proud Boys could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy. Tarrio’s lawyers ultimately decided not to put her on the witness stand after the judge said attorneys couldn’t ask about her relationship with the FBI because it’s not relevant to the trial. Prosecutors said that person, who didn’t officially become an informant until after months after the riot, was never told to gather information about the defendants or their lawyers and the FBI ended its relationship with her this past January after it learned she might testify. The trial was briefly disrupted last week when prosecutors told defense attorneys that another person the defense had wanted to put on the witness stand secretly worked as a government informant for two years after the Jan.
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