Murder the Media, it turns out, is the name of the far-right online news outfit that had dispatched DeCarlo and Ochs to Washington that day. When the men spoke to the
Los Angeles Times DeCarlo gave the name “Dick NeCarlo” they insisted that they were merely on the scene to do their journalistic duties.
But they blew their own cover in a livestreamed video. “Congress stopped the vote when we stormed the Capitol. As we’ve been saying all day: We came here to stop the steal,” Ochs said.
“We did it,” DeCarlo chimed in. “That’s what I came down here to do. That’s what we did.”
Proud Boys Hawaii leader and prominent Texas member both face new conspiracy charges after planning the Capitol riot as FBI says deadly siege was retaliation at cops over stabbing at earlier march
Nicholas DeCarlo, of Burleson, and Nicholas R. Ochs, of Honolulu, were indicted for conspiracy to obstruct Congress Wednesday following their January arrests
The indictment against the two men says they both agreed before January 6 to travel to Washington to stop, delay and hinder Joe Biden s election victory
Among other things, the pair stand accused of scrawling Murder the media on a door of the Capitol and stealing a pair of handcuffs that belonged to police
A man who describes himself as the "Sergeant of Arms" of a chapter of the far-right group Proud Boys was charged in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month.
The Proud Boys, a white nationalist, chauvinist group, has engaged in several violent clashes, including the 2017 Charlottesville, Va., Unite the Right rally.
Federal agents on Wednesday arrested a prominent member of the Seattle chapter of the Proud Boys, a nationalist, chauvinist organization, for his role in storming the U.S. Capitol with other pro-Trump rioters on Jan. 6.
Ethan Nordean, a self-described sergeant of arms for the Seattle Proud Boys, faces charges of impeding an official government proceeding, aiding and abetting, knowingly entering restricted grounds, and violent entry.
Separately, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday indicted Nicholas DeCarlo and Nicholas R. Ochs for conspiracy to obstruct Congress, and other charges related to the insurrection. The indictment says Ochs purports to have founded of the Honolulu Proud Boys.
Proud Boys may have planned Capitol breach to retaliate against police for member stabbed at earlier march, FBI alleges Spencer Hsu Social media posts by a Washington state member of the Proud Boys arrested Wednesday indicate that he and others were planning in advance to organize a group that would attempt to overwhelm police barricades and breach the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, U.S. prosecutors alleged. Ethan Nordean, 30, and others appeared motivated in part by what they perceived to be an insufficient police response to the stabbing of one of their members who attended a December pro-Trump demonstration in D.C., the FBI said in charging papers.