Proud Boys members hit with new January 6 conspiracy charges
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Nicholas Ochs and Nicholas DeCarlo threw smoke grenades at officers protecting the Capitol, prosecutors claim. Two Proud Boys members who allegedly threw smoke grenades at officers and inscribed “Murder the Media” on a door during the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol have been indicted on new conspiracy charges.
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Ochs is a founding member of the Proud Boys Hawaii branch, The Associated Press reports, and a one-time Republican state House candidate. The Proud Boys are a right-wing extremist group that describe themselves as a “pro-Western fraternal organization for men who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world, A.K.A. Western Chauvinists.” President-elect Donald Trump famously told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during a televised presidential debate against Joe Biden just months before the 2020 election. The Proud Boys among those who later stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 ahead of Biden’s inauguration.
Ochs and DeCarlo raised money to travel from their hometowns to Washington, D.C. for the riot, the indictment claims. As they approached the Capitol, prosecutors claim Ochs said: “The steal is in fact right here and we are going to stop it,” referring to baseless claims that the vote was somehow stolen.
