Zachary Rehl, president of the Philadelphia Proud Boys chapter, said many members of the group formerly served in the U.S. military and that the militia served as a brotherhood who looked after one another. “We go to protest... We go party all night.'
Under questioning from his defense lawyer, Carmen Hernandez, in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., Rehl told Judge Timothy Kelly and jurors that there was not a singular reason that led him to join the group.
Rehl, 37, insisted that when he marched with other Proud Boys from the Washington Monument to the Capitol, he was acting patriotically. But he also told the court that he now accepts that “what ultimately unfolded, all the violence, was a disgrace … and I think that ultimately it didn’t do any good.”
During the course of a lengthy cross-examination, however, federal prosecutor Erik Kenerson produced text messages and other evidence that raised significant questions about Rehl’s real loyalties and feelings about what happened on Jan. 6.A Jan.
“We shoulda held the capitol. After trump conceding today, it all seemed like a waste,” Rehl wrote to fellow Philadelphia Proud Boys in one of them. Under questioning, Rehl confirmed to the jury that he had entered the Capitol, smoked a cigarette inside an office and watched other protesters smoking marijuana in the building. Prosecutors do not allege that he engaged in vandalism or violence.
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