Posted on 04/09/2023 10:12:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The trial of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio over his alleged role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot has taken some odd twists and turns thus far. That pattern continued this week when his attorney introduced text messages showing that Tarrio had been in regular communications with a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer for more than a year prior to the riot. He had regularly exchanged information with Shane Lamond, a seasoned veteran of the D.C. Police. The texts reveal that Tarrio answered questions and shared the group’s plans, with Lamond passing the information on to his superiors and sharing it with the Capitol Hill Police as well. It’s unclear how receptive the court will be to this argument, but this revelation certainly raises some interesting questions. (Raw Story)
The leader of the far-right Proud Boys revealed at his trial text messages showing “regular contact” with a Metropolitan Police officer in Washington, D.C. in the 15 months before the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, reported The Washington Post on Friday.
“Enrique Tarrio, then chairman of the far-right extremist group, repeatedly shared outlines of members’ plans in D.C. and elsewhere at the request of Shane Lamond, a 22-year veteran of the D.C. police department, according to text exchanges read by Tarrio’s defense in his trial on seditious conspiracy charges with four other Proud Boys leaders,” reported Spencer S. Hsu. “Tarrio argues that his relationship with Lamond showed there was no Proud Boys conspiracy to oppose police or federal authority, or plan to disrupt Congress’s confirmation of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory on Jan. 6. Exchanges highlighted by the defense show Lamond forwarded his information to his D.C. police command, a Virginia State Police contact, and even U.S. Capitol Police.”
Prosecutors are pointing out that most (but not all) of the text exchanges took place before plans for the January 6 rally took shape, so there probably would have been little of interest to the police. They also note that the online relationship between Tarrio and the officer had the appearance of being “inappropriate.”
I’m not sure what this really does for Tarrio’s defense. After all, Lamond wasn’t acting covertly. Tarrio knew he was speaking to a police officer. So even if the Proud Boys were planning something illegal, why would he give that information to a cop? And if they were planning an attack and that information had been passed on to the Capitol Hill Police, how were they so woefully unprepared when the riot broke out?
The other possibility is that there really weren’t any such plans among the Proud Boys and the entire riot was spontaneous, as most defendants have repeatedly said. But if that’s the case, it’s pretty hard to make a seditious conspiracy charge stick and that’s one of the more serious charges Tarrio faces.
If the court is honestly interested in getting to the truth of the matter and not just throwing the book at Tarrio as hard as they can, they should probably get Shane Lamond on the stand under oath. What was the nature of his relationship with Tarrio? Was he in touch with any other members of the Proud Boys or different groups that wound up traveling to Washington?
We previously learned that the FBI had been embedding people with the Proud Boys. Now we find out that a cop was texting one of the group’s leaders more often than a couple of teenagers who are dating. How could the Proud Boys have ever gotten away with anything without law enforcement knowing about it? Something here absolutely doesn’t smell right. If any of the Proud Boys actually took part in property destruction or assaults on law enforcement officers on January 6, then they should be dealt with like any other rioter. But it really sounds like the courts are trying to make an example out of the Proud Boys, and that’s not how justice is supposed to work.
“Rebellion to stooge kangaroos is obedience to God.”
In touch for what?
That would seem pertinent
It tells you that local police are used as middle men/assets for informing the fbi, cia, etc. So, if any of the actual proud boys searched for fbi and other 3 letter agency contacts with enrique, or anyone like him, they would appear ‘clean’ and have plausible deniability, all the while actually being an informant/fed agent.
>> prior to the riot.
how exactly am I expected to read beyond that?
Jazz Shaw is not the sharpest knife.
Planning for a year?
Election was Nov 2020
Stop the Steal protest was Jan 2021
Did Tarrio coordinate his plans with Ray Epps?
Proud Boys are NOTHING but FEDS!! WHO ELSE would name a group “PROUD BOYS”? Far right, my ass.
Gavin McInnes?
They started as a male Western chauvinist drinking club.
How the left sees things:
Proud Boys.. far right (meaning Patriotic)
White Supremacists Group (Run by Enrique Tarrio an Afro-Cuban that accepts all ethnicities)
“Enrique Tarrio, then chairman of the far-right extremist group,
He had regularly exchanged information with Shane Lamond, a seasoned veteran of the D.C. Police.
The article tells us nothing......................
“Enrique Tarrio, then chairman of the far-right extremist group, repeatedly shared outlines of members’ plans in D.C. and elsewhere at the request of Shane Lamond,
At the request of Shane Lamond might be the key position.
Looks as if they tried to be legit. Had what they thought was a contact person.
would still like to know more about shane and superiors and nature of the converstatons.
Tarrio, however, told the Post that his contact with Lamond was professional and that he provided Lamond and other law enforcement agents notice when he planned rallies or marches in D.C.
Tarrio said that Lamond would tell him the location of counterprotesters so that the Proud Boys could avoid confrontation, explaining that “[Lamond] was just a liaison officer for when we held rallies,” Tarrio told the Post.
The Proud Boy I know is a local from generations back and only helps Repubs fight off Antifa. I doubt they are tied in with the KGBI.
I wouldn’t join any club that would have me as a member, let alone one infiltrated with snitches.
Exactly. Tell them what and where you will be, they coordinate infiltration into your ranks, they subvert your message and actions.
Typical bate and switch.
Emerald Robinson ✝️
@EmeraldRobinson
Where’s the Jan 6th footage that we were promised?
It’s time to admit the House GOP has lied to the American people.
There’s 44,000 hours of video and you’ve seen 5 minutes.
11:02 AM · Apr 10, 2023
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