Proud Boys organizer charged in Capitol attack says he aided FBI 'antifa' inquiries

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A leader of the Proud Boys charged in an alleged conspiracy to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6 claims he has a longstanding relationship with the FBI, which he said regularly sought him out for information about “antifa networks” in Florida and other parts of the United States.

Joseph Biggs, one of four Proud Boys organizers charged in one of the Justice Department’s biggest cases stemming from the Capitol siege, said the bureau regularly turned to him for advice on antifa — a loosely affiliated collection of violent leftists that the bureau has described as adherents to an ideology rather than part of an organized group.

“In late July 2020, an FBI Special Agent out of the Daytona Beach area telephoned Biggs and asked Biggs to meet with him and another FBI agent at a local restaurant. Biggs agreed,” according to a late Monday court filing issued by Biggs’ attorney in an effort to keep Biggs out of pretrial detention. “Biggs learned after he traveled to the restaurant that the purpose of the meeting was to determine if Biggs could share information about Antifa networks operating in Florida and elsewhere. They wanted to know what Biggs was ‘seeing on the ground.’”

Biggs’ claims, not immediately corroborated by the FBI, nevertheless are likely to sharpen concerns that law enforcement has tolerated violence by the Proud Boys, which have long styled themselves as allies of the police in a fight against leftists. Like Biggs, Proud Boys national chair Enrique Tarrio has said in media interviews that he had long proactively communicated with law enforcement about Proud Boys’ plans in various cities — plans that routinely led to violent confrontations with leftist protesters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/proud-boys-organizer-charged-in-capitol-attack-says-he-aided-fbi-antifa-inquiries/ar-BB1f79dA?li=BBnb7Kz

[Eugene]

1. Of course he did. Law enforcement has been sourcing its "facts" (and some of its people)

from the far right for years.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Not often a member of a criminal gang crows about being a snitch.

[Progressive Jones]

6. The PBs are a gang of garden variety brawlers. They remind me of the punks I grew up around.

I grew up in Chicago, in the 1960s/1970s. In and around my neighborhood there were several street gangs ("clubs", as they liked to call themselves).

These were not criminal masterminds, LOL. Aside from a few being petty thieves, they just were a bunch of dummies who liked to huff paint thinner, and get into fights with the other gangs. They hadn't "graduated" to anything bigger, crime-wise, and never really did.

[rockfordfile]

4. If true, then those two FBI guys should be investigated and fired. It seems they may be fascist.

[struggle4progress]

5. "And I could have been one of Sidney Powells's expert witnesses, too!"