In an interview after being sentenced to 22 years in prison, Tarrio also says he never intended for his group to attack the Capitol, which he said was wrong
Prosecutors meet with defendants before trials all the time in hopes of getting cooperation, new information and one less defendant to face in court. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington declined to comment on any pre-trial meetings with Tarrio.
was right,” Tarrio said of his co-defendant, who received a 10-year sentence in part for breaking the window. “I think it’s terrible what happened that day.” Tarrio had been arrested on Jan. 4, 2021, as he was arriving in the city, for previously burning a Black Lives Matter banner, and was given a pre-trial order to stay out of the city. He said police seized his phone then, and after he was released from jail on Jan. 5, he bought a burner phone but was unable to activate it. He spent Jan. 6 at a hotel in Baltimore.Tarrio said he thought there was simply going to be a rally on Jan.
Tarrio didn’t take the stand in his own defense at trial, so the jury never heard from him. He said he feared prosecutors would be allowed to broadly question him about other matters, such as the prior Proud Boys rallies, “where I was going to be disliked more than I already was by the jury.”Tarrio said prosecutors in Miami last fall did not ask him about Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant who was an acquaintance of Tarrio, or Ali Alexander, a promoter of the “Stop the Steal” rally.
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