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Four members of the neo-fascist Proud Boys, three of whom have military backgrounds, were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol \u2013 a significant milestone in the Jan. 6, 2021, cases that again highlighted the participation of veterans and service members, and created a new wave of disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, along with members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl, were convicted by a jury in Washington, D.C., of seditious conspiracy \u2013 a charge that carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case is a reminder that a large segment of the Jan. 6 protestors were veterans and even active duty service members \u2013 a small but vocal slice of the military community that proved willing to resort to violence against elected officials and fellow officers of the law, primed by a steady stream of disinformation that cast the 2020 election as rigged or stolen, though even Republican election officials across the country denied that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like-minded election-deniers took to social media following Thursday\u2019s convictions, condemning the verdict as a gross injustice, and several popular conservative Twitter accounts described the defendants as political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fitting right into this disinformation machine that has been built up over the last couple of years,\u201d said Michael Jensen, a senior researcher at the University of Maryland\u2019s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the initial verdict, the jury deliberated for several more hours on a conspiracy charge for the fifth defendant and <\/b>former Marine, Dominic Pezzola. They found him not guilty of seditious conspiracy, but he and the four others were found guilty of several other felonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norm Pattis, an attorney representing Biggs, declined to comment to Military Times early Thursday until a final verdict was reached. Nordean\u2019s attorney didn\u2019t provide comment to reporters outside of the courthouse Thursday, CNN reported, while Tarrio\u2019s lawyer said he was drafting an appeal and Rehl\u2019s attorney, Carmen Hernandez, said simply, \u201cIt is not a happy day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys (L) and Joe Biggs (R) gather outside of Harry’s bar during a protest on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Stephanie Keith\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Radicalizing veterans and service members<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For the past decade, Jensen has managed a database of domestic extremists charged with crimes. The attack on the Capitol \u2013 and the demographics of those individuals involved \u2013 prompted his team to take a closer look at the role of veterans and service members in extremist groups. Veterans\u2019 participation in the Capitol siege was also tracked by George Washington University<\/a> and Harvard University<\/a> and has been the subject of multiple congressional hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An analysis<\/a> by George Washington University found that 43 of the 357 individuals arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack had a military history. People with links to the military made up 12% of those charged, despite accounting for an estimated 7% of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jensen\u2019s research found that 26 of the 98 members, or of the Proud Boys who have been charged in connection with the attack have military backgrounds. Those members include Nordean, Biggs and Rehl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nordean, a chapter leader of the Proud Boys in Auburn, Washington, joined the Navy but didn\u2019t make it past basic training, Jensen said. Rehl served in the Marine Corps, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, and Biggs spent eight years total in the Army Reserve and the active-duty Army, deploying twice and earning a Purple Heart, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rehl led a Proud Boys chapter in Philadelphia, and Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, was a self-described organizer of the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The participation of veterans and service members in the Capitol attack was the subject of a congressional hearing<\/a> in 2021, at which experts testified that the population has been a long-time recruitment target of extremist organizations. The groups seek out veterans because of their military expertise, said Seth Jones, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVeterans have valuable skills that extremist networks want, such as small unit tactics, communications, logistics, reconnaissance, and surveillance,\u201d Jones testified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its analysis of veterans and service members involved in extremist activities, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism discovered that a \u201ctiny fraction\u201d of people enter the military with extremist views. About 20% start developing those views in the military, while a vast majority are radicalized after leaving the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the number of veterans participating in extremism more than tripled over the past 10 years, the consortium found<\/a>. In addition to their tactical knowledge, veterans are prime recruitment targets because of their leadership abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMilitary service prepares you to lead a group,\u201d he said. \u201cThese guys tend to either be the ones to establish the organization or they rise through the ranks very, very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington. (Susan Walsh\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Proud Boys remain active<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jensen searched through known channels of disinformation across social media platforms following Thursday\u2019s verdict and found what he said were typical responses, including claims that the defendants had no reason to think they were doing anything wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The false narratives about Jan. 6, 2021 are \u201cthe more dangerous kind of disinformation,\u201d Jensen said, because they tend to reach a larger audience than radical beliefs posted to niche platforms and through encrypted channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s potentially doing a lot more harm in terms of radicalizing large numbers of individuals,\u201d Jensen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The arrest of the Proud Boys\u2019 leader hasn\u2019t stopped its activity, and Jensen believes the guilty verdict won\u2019t have any negative effect on the organization overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of the Oath Keepers, another right-wing fringe organization that participated in the attack, the arrest of leader Stewart Rhodes effectively shuttered the group, Jensen said. It\u2019s been inactive since Jan. 6, 2021, and Rhodes and associate Kelly Meggs were convicted in December of seditious conspiracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oath Keepers operated through a hierarchy, which made it difficult for members to continue after the arrest of their leaders. Unlike that group, the Proud Boys lack a centralized structure and instead operate as autonomous chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Jan. 6, 2021, chapters of the Proud Boys have turned their attention toward local politics, rather than trying to influence things at the national level, Jensen said. They protested mask mandates during the Covid-19 pandemic and have argued against critical race theory at their local school board meetings, among other activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis [verdict] is unlikely to end the Proud Boys,\u201d Jensen said. \u201cThey\u2019re not going to go away because these four guys are going to spend up to 20 years in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story was produced in partnership with <\/i>Military Veterans in Journalism<\/i><\/a>. Please send tips to <\/i>MVJ-Tips@militarytimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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