Star U.S. witness says Proud Boys took ‘reins,’ led Jan. 6 riot by example
The sole member of the Proud Boys to plead guilty to seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack testified Wednesday that members believed they had to “take the reins” and lead a new American revolution to keep President Trump in office and claimed credit for the storming of the Capitol. In dramatic testimony during the trial of longtime Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, star government witness Jeremy Bertino, 43, of Belmont, N.C., implicated his former friend, saying the extremist group acted as the “tip of the spear” that day and led a mob by example by being among the first to confront police, topple barricades and break into the building.
