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- In Thursday’s hearing before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, one witness scheduled was documentary maker Nick Quested, who filmed the Proud Boys storming the Capitol – along with a pivotal meeting between the group’s then-chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and another extremist group, the Oath Keepers, the night before in nearby parking garage.
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Jun 8, 2022 · Nick Quested was present at a meeting of the leaders of two extremist groups on Jan. 5, and followed a group of Proud Boys as they stormed the Capitol.
- Multiplatform Reporter
- 2 min
- CBS News
Jun 10, 2022 · Nick Quested, a documentary filmmaker who captured parts of the Jan. 6 insurrection, is among the first witnesses to testify before the House committee investigating the attack during its first...
Jun 10, 2022 · British filmmaker Nick Quested testifies on Capitol Hill on Thursday as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal...
- Ryan J. Reilly
- Seditious Questions
- Shared Values, Different Tactics
- The Oath Keepers
- The Proud Boys
- Evidence of Collaboration?
The January 6th Committee’s prime time hearing highlighted the role of violent right wing groups now each facing seditious conspiracy charges for their roles seeking to block the peaceful transfer of power of power on Jan. 6: the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. The committee’s presentation did not definitively answer a pressing question, however: ...
The Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys share extreme right-wing politics and a love of Donald Trump, but they’re culturally distinct. The Oath Keepers are part of the militia movement and recruit heavily from among veterans of the military and law enforcement. They imagine themselves as keepers of the constitutional order, but they are steeped in cons...
The Oath Keepers were hit with the seditious conspiracy charge first, in January of this year. Federal court documents allege that Stewart Rhodes, the milita’s founder, plotted with lieutenants starting in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election, predicting that a “civil war” was imminent. In advance of Jan. 6, Rhodes and his loyalists alleged...
The seditious conspiracy charge against the Proud Boyswas not unveiled until this week, targeting Tarrio who led the organization during the events of Jan. 6, and several deputies. Following the election, Tarrio allegedly recruited and led a select cadre of Proud Boys known as the Ministry of Self Defense. Starting in late December, Tarrio is alleg...
Did the streams of these two conspiracies cross? Neither the Jan. 6 Committee nor the Justice Department has said so explicitly. But in making its case against the Proud Boys in preliminary court proceedings, federal prosecutors have repeatedly pointed to the suspicious meeting in the garage of the Phoenix Hotel on Jan. 5, just before Tarrio left t...
Jun 7, 2022 · British filmmaker Nick Quested, who captured extensive footage of the Proud Boys in the days around the Capitol riot, will testify at Thursday's prime-time hearing.
- Ryan J. Reilly
- 2 min
Jun 10, 2022 · Committee members heard testimony from a witness with evidence that Jan. 6 was a planned attack. Documentarian Nick Quested was filming the extremist group the Proud Boys before and during the...
Jun 10, 2022 · The documentarian captured footage of Tarrio meeting with Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes in an underground garage the night before Jan. 6, as well as footage of Proud Boys on the front lines...
