Enrique Tarrio, the reported former leader of the Proud Boys ultranationalist group, had detailed plans for overtaking and occupying numerous government buildings during the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, the Guardian reports.
Filed in court documents related to Tarrio’s arrest, the plans included instructions for Proud Boys and their sympathizers to capture at least six Congressional office buildings and hold them to prevent the certification of the 2020 election results which affirmed Joe Biden’s election victory.
The nine-page document showed how 50 Proud Boys and other supporters would execute the plan, divided into five sections: infiltrate, execution, distract, occupy, and sit-in. Tarrio encouraged the disrupters to chant “We the People” and “No Trump, no America” during the occupation.
Tarrio was not in Washington on January 6th because he was banned from the city as part of a bail arrangement for a previous weapons charge and for burning a Black Lives Matter banner torn off a Black church in DC. It was exposed that he had been an informant for the FBI, and he was subsequently forced out of his leadership position with the Proud Boys.