‘Raise the black flag’: How four Proud Boys secretly planned to overthrow American democracy – By Michael Drummond (Sky News) / Sept 7, 2023
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced for seditious conspiracy after helping plan the January 6 riots. Sky News reveals how four men from the far-right US group planned to overthrow democracy and asks a key question – are the Proud Boys still a threat?
“No quarter. Raise the black flag.”
Enrique Tarrio is raging online about President Joe Biden’s election victory. It’s November 2020, a couple of months before the January 6 insurrection.
But Tarrio isn’t just an angry Donald Trump supporter posting on the internet. He’s the leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group with perhaps thousands of members ultimately reporting to him.
He wanted Mr Trump to remain in office, warning of a second civil war. So he and others hatched a plan, one that culminated in the storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021.
