The proud boys planned out the attack from the start. That's why they were charged as a criminal conspiracy and not as individuals. Any person in a criminal conspiracy can be charged with any crimes committed by any other conspthat were committed in furtherance of the conspiracy.Yeah because you probably THOUGHT about it. That's what the 4 Proud Boys were convicted of really. The prosecutors presented videos of violent behavior by Proud Boys who were only tenuously connected to the defendants.
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Do these seditious conspiracy convictions prove the Capitol riot 'was not spontaneous'?
A jury convicted members of the Proud Boys without evidence of an explicit plot, let alone one that most of the rioters were trying to execute.reason.com