Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in jail in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riots.
What Happened: Tarrio was charged with seditious conspiracy and leading a failed plot to obstruct the transfer of power, in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, Washington.
Handing down the severest penalty so far in the Capitol riot case, Judge Timothy Kelly said Tarrio was the “ultimate leader of that conspiracy [seditious conspiracy]” and had been “motivated by revolutionary zeal.”
Commenting on the development, Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump, said in a post on X, ...