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Proud Boys may have deliberately planned the Capitol siege as revenge against law enforcement
FBI saysInvestigators are looking into whether members of the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys planned elements of the Capitol siege to get revenge on members of law enforcement, the FBI said in a newly released affidavit.
In court filings, first reported by The Washington Post, in the case of Ethan Nordean, a Proud Boys leader in Seattle, FBI agents said that some members, including Nordean, had prepared for violence.
The affidavit said that some of them might have come to the Capitol seeking to retaliate against law enforcement over the response to the stabbing of a member on December 12 in Washington, DC, at a protest of the Electoral College vote.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged Nordean, who has also gone by the name Rufio Panman, with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding, aiding and abetting, knowingly entering or remaining in restricted building or grounds, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/proud-boys-may-deliberately-planned-160630252.html
