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Carrie Johnson

Proud Boys operated as fighting force for Trump on Jan. 6, prosecutors say

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio poses for a portrait at Delta Park during a rally on Sept. 26, 2020 in Portland, Ore. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Enrique Tarrio and other leaders of the Proud Boys helped unleash a mob to stop certification of the 2020 election, part of a "fighting force lining up behind Donald Trump and ready to commit violence on his behalf," the Justice Department told a jury in Washington, D.C.

Prosecutor Conor Mulroe played audio from officers under siege on Jan. 6, 2021, as the landmark seditious conspiracy case in the federal courthouse down the street from the Capitol inched toward a conclusion.

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