Former Proud Boys leader pleads not guilty in Capitol attack

The Capitol Building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, Jun 10 Former far-right Proud Boys (Proud Boys) leader Enrique Tarrio has pleaded not guilty to the storming of the Capitol in early January 2021, court filings show. Justice Department Monday The U.S. filed sedition charges against Tarrio and three other Proud Boys members. «Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs and Dominic Pezzola pleaded not guilty,» the court record says. participating in the burning of a Black Lives Matter poster. Then the ultra-right activist repented of his deed, describing his act as a «serious mistake». On January 1, 2021, a crowd of Trump supporters broke into the building of the Congress in an attempt to disrupt the approval of the results of the presidential election, which was won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden.