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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant
The Guardian ^ | 27 January 2021 | Aram Roston

Posted on 01/27/2021 8:07:45 AM PST by zeestephen

Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters...The records uncovered by Reuters are startling because they show that a leader of a far-right group now under intense scrutiny by law enforcement was previously an active collaborator with criminal investigators.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitolriot; cointelpro; fbi; proudboys
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1 posted on 01/27/2021 8:07:45 AM PST by zeestephen
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If this is true, that’s a bit of a mind-flip. I wonder how much of some of the activities they were engaged in were set up by him.


2 posted on 01/27/2021 8:09:33 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: zeestephen

That is how the American Gestapo works.


3 posted on 01/27/2021 8:09:34 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: zeestephen

FBI trying to get this man killed.


4 posted on 01/27/2021 8:09:36 AM PST by snarkytart
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Law enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio’s denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio’s case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that “he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes.”


5 posted on 01/27/2021 8:11:48 AM PST by snarkytart
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“...leader of a far-right group...” Should they have, instead, said ‘Trump supporters’ or ‘capital attackers/insurgents’ or ‘known domestic terrorists’ or ‘naughtZees’ or ‘klanspersons’. Getting pretty tired of it.


6 posted on 01/27/2021 8:12:19 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed. Enlisted USN 1967.)
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To: zeestephen

I woke up this morning wondering how many of the “white supremacist” groups were led by FBI embeds of the deep state to help entice the groups into the kind of actions that would make them “more radical”. And in that vein, I was wondering if the whole “capital riot” was a deep state created event, and created for the objective of obtaining exactly what the Dims have made of it.

If Trump was an opponent of any group maybe most of all it was the duopoly-uniparty approved deep state.


7 posted on 01/27/2021 8:13:04 AM PST by Wuli
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I must admit, I did not have Enrique Tarrio being an FBI informant among my Wednesday morning news bets.


8 posted on 01/27/2021 8:13:15 AM PST by Meatspace
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To: zeestephen
Tommy Robinson said he turned people in that where dangerous. Militia group turned in Timothy McVeigh months before the bombing.
This means nothing other then it proves Enrique Tarrio isn't an extremist
9 posted on 01/27/2021 8:15:12 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: zeestephen
The Capitol mob "leader" with the horned helmet was also a professional rabble-rouser who has been filmed at several BLM and Antifa demonstrations.

Also, at least one witness stated that "horned helmet guy" was urging the fatally shot female Trump supporter to climb through the broken window by the locked door.

10 posted on 01/27/2021 8:18:39 AM PST by zeestephen
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So he told the cops the truth in 2012.

Ok


11 posted on 01/27/2021 8:21:06 AM PST by The Toll
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What are the odds that this guy was recruited by anti-Trump elements of the FBI, and then directed to get a group of right wingers worked up? Then he’s pulled out before Jan 6th? If that were the case, was he the only one recruited?

I say let’s go ahead with the impeachment trial. Maybe some interesting stuff will come out.


12 posted on 01/27/2021 8:23:01 AM PST by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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Divide and conquer. Why was he arrested by DC before the Capitol protest? Didnt they get the memo. If he was currently assisting the FBI wouldnt they want him there?


13 posted on 01/27/2021 8:25:41 AM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: zeestephen

We are being played.....


14 posted on 01/27/2021 8:25:45 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: zeestephen

In 2012 it wasn’t as clear how much corruption there was in the FBI. He may have considered helping the government with efforts against human trafficking and fraud etc. to be the right thing to do, patriotic even.


15 posted on 01/27/2021 8:32:08 AM PST by Yardstick
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Re: "So he told the cops the truth in 2012. Ok."

That was just federal law enforcement, when he secretly testified against 13 other people in several 2014 trials.

Informants from the Miami Police Department said Tarrio was a "prolific cooperator" with local Police, too.

16 posted on 01/27/2021 8:34:43 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: Wuli

It makes you wonder if all the hell raising by antifa is an FBI operation. Just saying.


17 posted on 01/27/2021 8:39:30 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: zeestephen

If he was a mole in the Proud Boys, they’d have never released this info.


18 posted on 01/27/2021 8:41:55 AM PST by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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I knew that sounded fishy.

What kind of conservative organization would form this way and call themselves ‘proud’ and ‘boys’.

It sounded gay


19 posted on 01/27/2021 8:45:02 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Wuli

The whole “capital riot” was a deep state created event.

This is the same deep state that has been trying to get rid of Trump for 5 years. Yes it was a staged event and the dims knew it was coming.


20 posted on 01/27/2021 8:48:40 AM PST by Texas resident (Biden is China's bitch)
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