Philly Proud Boys member Freedom Vy pleads guilty to storming Capitol on Jan. 6
Freedom Vy, 39, pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in the historic attack, making him the fourth member of the Philadelphia Proud Boys convicted of doing so.
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Freedom Vy, 39, pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in the historic attack, making him the fourth member of the Philadelphia Proud Boys convicted of doing so.
Brian Healion, Upper Darby, pleaded to civil disorder offenses Thursday and will be sentenced in June.
From early planning via encrypted chats to members on the ground as the mob advanced on the Capitol, government evidence showed Proud Boys from Pennsylvania played an outsized role in Jan. 6.
One defendant recently told the court: “I was being an antagonistic jerk, and I still can’t understand why I was like that.”
Three of the people arrested in the U.S. Capitol riots have died.