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Four Proud Boy leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy are among them Hundreds of rioters at the Capitol Who will enjoy freedom after the pardon and commutation of sentences issued by Newly opened president Donald Trump.
Enrique Tarrio, who was a leader Far right The gang had been sentenced at the time of the mutiny four years ago to 22 years in prison, the longest sentence anyone had received on 6 January. He received a pardon. Co-defendants Zachary Riehl, Joseph Biggs and Ethan Nordean, who were previously sentenced to 15, 17 and 18 years in prison, had their sentences commuted and were ordered released effective Monday.
Enrique will return to Miami by 3 p.m. Tuesday, Tario’s mother, Zuni Duarte, told WIRED. He was serving his sentence in a federal prison in Bulloch, Louisiana.
Trump issued 14 commuted sentences and issued blanket pardons to all other individuals convicted in connection with the Capitol riot. About 1,580 people have been charged with crimes related to January 6.
“These people were devastated,” Trump said of his colleagues in the Oval Office on January 6. “What they did to these people is heinous, and there has rarely been anything like this in the history of this country.” He also floated conspiracy theories that “outside agitators” and the FBI were somehow responsible for the violence that erupted on January 6. Oath Keepers founder Stuart Rhodes, who was also convicted of seditious conspiracy, has also had his sentence commuted and will be released.
Trump had teased the upcoming pardon from his event earlier Monday at Capital One Arena, promising the imminent release of the “J6 hostages.”
“Oh, you’ll be happy to read the papers tomorrow and the next day and the next,” he said.
Reached by phone earlier Monday, Duarte told WIRED they expected Enrique to be released. “The men are excited and believe justice will finally come to us,” Duarte said. “Donald Trump knows what it means to be on the side of those being prosecuted and on the unjust side of things.”
Asked if Tarrio was still involved with the Proud Boys, Duarte replied: “That’s a question you have to ask him when he gets out.”
Before Trump even put ink to paper, news that correctional facilities were beginning to process the events of January 6 for release began spreading across the Internet. Social media accounts associated with the Proud Boys were jubilant, and Gavin McInnis, who founded the Proud Boys in 2016, announced a “party for the boys” in a live broadcast of his show during a fundraiser to support released gang members.
As a first-day job, it was a strikingly symbolic one. Four years ago, on January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters, motivated by conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, came to D.C. and laid siege to the Capitol with the aim of preventing the peaceful transfer of power. The ugly scenes culminated in the deaths of five people, the injury of more than 140 police officers, and Trump left Washington in disgrace.
Weeks later, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States behind riot barriers and barbed wire, and under the watchful eyes of more than 25,000 National Guard soldiers.
