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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:04 PM 12 hrs ago

Proud Boys members hit with new January 6 conspiracy charges

Source: The Independent

Friday 17 January 2025 05:28 GMT


Two Proud Boys members who allegedly threw smoke grenades at officers and inscribed “Murder the Media” on a door during the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol have been indicted on new conspiracy charges.

Proud Boys members Nicholas Ochs and Nicholas DeCarlo, also known as “Dick Lambaste,” are have been hit with the charges while serving a four-year prison sentence after they pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding in 2022. Prosecutors filed the superseding indictment introducing new conspiracy charges on Wednesday. Ochs is a founding member of the Proud Boys Hawaii branch, The Associated Press reports, and a one-time Republican state House candidate.

The Proud Boys are a right-wing extremist group that describe themselves as a “pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world, A.K.A. Western Chauvinists.” President-elect Donald Trump famously told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during a televised presidential debate against Joe Biden just months before the 2020 election. The Proud Boys among those who later stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 ahead of Biden’s inauguration.

Several members of the group, including former national chairman Henry Tarrio, were charged and ultimately sentenced to jail time for their involvement.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/nicholas-ochs-nicholas-decarlo-proud-boys-january-6-charges-b2681279.html

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Proud Boys members hit with new January 6 conspiracy charges (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago OP
Sad...not! sheshe2 11 hrs ago #1
charges that will be ddropped next week rampartd 11 hrs ago #2

rampartd

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2. charges that will be ddropped next week
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:49 PM
11 hrs ago

these guys will be cabinet members before their trial for that "day of love"

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