In 2018, the FBI labeled the Proud Boys an extremist group with white nationalism ties. Who are they and should they have been released from prison?

We need to find and put them behind bars for what they did. They need to pay for what they did,’ Enrique Tarrio exclaimed on Tuesday night, referencing those who investigated the January 6 Capitol attack.

At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters

Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio were among the most prominent January 6 defendants had received some of the harshest punishments.

Tarrio, 42, a Miami native, was serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted in May 2023 of seditious conspiracy.

The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, America’s far-right celebrated. Some called for the death of judges who oversaw the trials.

President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol and suggests there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys extremist group,

Leaders of far-right groups in the United States (US), who were at the forefront of the Capitol riots and were recently freed by the Donald Trump administration, said on Wednesday (January 22) that they were planning to regroup.

He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.

Three men from the Tri-Cities region accused of significant and violent roles in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol were included in President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon for rioters. One Tri-Cities defendant, though, won’t likely be leaving the D.C. Metropolitan Jail any time soon.