“We’re not gonna be doing like a proud boy fuckin’ 8 o’clock at night march and flexing our and shit,” MOSD member and co-defendant Zachary Rehl said during a December 30th video call, according to court documents. church - led members “with specific plans to: split up into groups, attempt to break into the Capitol building from as many different points as possible, and prevent the joint session of Congress from certifying the Electoral College results.”Īccording to court filings, in the weeks leading up to the attempted insurrection, top leaders of the group, including Biggs and Nordean, are alleged to have set up a “Ministry of Self-Defense” to coordinate the plan of attack.
Joseph Biggs seen with fellow Proud Boys on January 6th, 2021, later claimed he shared Proud Boys plans with the FBI in 20.īut more than 1,500 pages of Telegram chats recovered by the government indicate otherwise, with prosecutors alleging in court filings that Nordean, in the absence of Tarrio - who had been arrested two days prior for burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a black D.C. Indeed, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Proud Boys chair Enrique Tarrio claims the FBI is using the group as a “scapegoat” to account for its own failures and that the Proud Boys had never planned to storm the Capitol, attributing their actions that day as a result of “mob mentality.” (An attorney for Nordean declined to comment Pezzola’s attorney did not respond to Rolling Stone.)ĭefendants have argued in court filings that the Proud Boys are a loosely structured organization, and that the storming of the Capitol was a purely spontaneous act. Biggs, who declined to comment through his attorney, was charged with conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and destruction of government property, among other charges, while Nordean was charged with crimes including aiding and abetting destruction of government property (which the judge in a March hearing identified as a “crime of violence”), obstructing an official proceeding, and disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds if convicted, he could face more than 30 years in prison. Prosecutors allege that more than 60 people affiliated with the Proud Boys used an encrypted Telegram channel to plan the events of January 6th, including Biggs, Nordean, and Pezzola Scott was arrested in May and charged with assault on a federal officer, in addition to other charges. Nordean, Biggs, Pezzola, and Scott are all members of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist organization with anywhere between 5,000 and 35,000 members, depending on whom you ask. I knew we could take this motherfucker over if we just tried hard enough.” “Victory smoke in the Capitol, boys,” he tells his audience.
According to federal filings, Spazzo later posts a video of himself smoking a cigar in the hallowed building’s halls. “This is awesome,” he says over cries of “This is our house.” One Proud Boy livestreams himself half-singing, “Nancy, come out and play,” as if the speaker of the House was the member of some rival Warriors gang. In the video, Biggs can be seen flashing a grin. Dominic Pezzola, a Rochester, New York, military veteran nicknamed Spaz or Spazzo, breaks a window using a riot shield he’d wrested away from a police officer, allowing rioters to filter into the Capitol. Led by former InfoWars staffer Joe Biggs and Nordean, the men march onto the Capitol grounds, yelling “Fuck antifa” and “Whose streets? Our streets.” At 1:07 p.m., Biggs and Nordean are seen near the front of a crowd surging toward the barriers, eventually overpowering police. Hours later, according to video footage, they do it. “Don’t yell it, do it,” says someone in the background. “It was Milkshake, man. . . . Idiot.” The vlogger shooting the video, Hendrick “Eddie” Block, laughs uproariously. Ethan Nordean, who goes by Rufio Panman, after the Lost Boys’ leader from the 1991 Steven Spielberg film Hook, shouts into the megaphone, with the air of an impatient older brother. “Let’s not fucking yell that, all right,” someone else in the video says. It’s around noon on January 6th, a frigid day in Washington, D.C., and even though most of the men there are wearing orange ski hats and winter jackets, they’re still shifting from one foot to another to keep warm. The man’s name is Daniel Lyons Scott, but he goes by Milkshake. A burly, bearded man in a ballistic vest and a baseball cap that says “God, Guns, and Trump” is trying to rally members of the crowd.
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