Sedition sentence is one of the longest yet for a Jan. 6 criminal
In a marker of Biggs’ central role in the plot, prosecutors have asked for the same 33-year sentence for Tarrio, the Proud Boys honcho. He was due to be sentenced Wednesday; an illness by the judge postponed that proceeding to next week. By comparison, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepersfor leading that militia’s seditious conspiracy plot on Jan. 6. For now, at least Rhodes’ sentence is still the longest to result from the events of Jan. 6.
The Proud Boys — self-described as a “Western chauvinist” fight club — saw themselves as loyalists of Trump, who famously called on the brawlers to “” during a 2020 debate with Biden. And after Trump announced a protest in D.C. to dispute his election loss, Tarrio created an elite unit within the Proud Boys he called the “Ministry of Self Defense,” with the objective of keeping Trump in power.
These Proud Boys “viewed themselves as revolutionaries, and they believed fully in their cause,” the government argues. Recruits in the top-down structure were told to “fit in or fuck off.” According to the government, “it was Biggs’ pro-violence philosophy that they were meant to ‘fit in’ with.” This MOSD unit was full of committed extremists who were willing to take orders, and use force as necessary. As spelled out in an 80-pagefor all five criminals, these Proud Boys “participated in every consequential breach at the Capitol on January 6,” leading surge after surge against Capitol police, until Pezzola finally “smashed open a window allowing the first rioters to enter the Capitol.”
Even after the attack, Biggs showed no remorse. He called Jan. 6 a “warning shot to the government,” while likening the Proud Boys to the founding fathers were also “considered terrorists.” In fact, federal prosecutors sought to stiffen the sentences for all five Proud Boys by adding a federal “terrorism” enhancement — in Biggs’ case because his crimes were “calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion.
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