Members of the Proud Boys have been linked to the Capitol attack, and Canada may designate the group as terrorists. We take a look at who they are, how they started and what they became.
January 13, 2021 5:19 p.m.
Rather than attend upcoming right-wing demonstrations that have been the subject of federal law enforcement alerts in recent days, members of the right-wing street gang the Proud Boys should “walk backward through a field of dicks,” Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio said Wednesday on the group’s Telegram channel.
Referring to the planned events as a “fed honeypot” presumably, he meant an effort to attract and catch armed right-wingers as they commit crimes Tarrio wrote, “We suggest none of you go to these events.”
“We won’t sit on our hands for the next four years but we can pick and choose our battles moving forward,” he said.
Banned from Facebook and Twitter, pro-Trump extremists hatch Inauguration Day violence in dark reaches of the web Jessica Guynn and Aleszu Bajak, USA TODAY
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Expelled from mainstream social media, the supporters of President Trump, QAnon conspiracy theorists, white supremacists and armed agitators behind the deadly Capitol siege have burrowed into the darker reaches of the internet, where they are hatching plans to converge on state capitals and Washington, D.C., this weekend and Inauguration Day in smaller online forums and on encrypted messaging apps.
“Many of Us will return on January 19, 2021, carrying Our weapons, in support of Our nation s resolve, to which [sic] the world will never forget!!! one QAnon supporter wrote on Parler, a right-leaning social media platform that was taken offline Monday when Amazon stopped hosting it. We will come in numbers that no standing army or police
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Expelled from mainstream social media, the supporters of President Donald Trump, QAnon conspiracy theorists, white supremacists and armed agitators behind the deadly Capitol siege have burrowed into the darker reaches of the internet, where they are hatching plans to converge on state capitals and Washington, D.C., this weekend and Inauguration Day in smaller online forums and on encrypted messaging apps.
“Many of Us will return on January 19, 2021, carrying Our weapons, in support of Our nation s resolve, to which [sic] the world will never forget!!! one QAnon supporter wrote on Parler, a right-leaning social media platform that was taken offline Monday when Amazon stopped hosting it. We will come in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match.”