Proud Boys leader's mom asks Trump for pardon in Jan. 6 case

On the left side, we see President-elect Donald Trump delivering a speech during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on December 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file). On the right side, Enrique Tarrio and the Proud Boys are seen participating in a demonstration near Freedom Plaza during the Million Maga March protest against the election results on November 14, 2020, in Washington D.C. (Chris Tuite/imageSPACE/MediaPunch /IPX). In the small picture in the corner, we have Zuny Tarrio (WTVJ).

The mother of the Proud Boys leader who helped orchestrate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol went on television to ask President-elect Donald Trump to pardon her son from his 22-year sentence.

Enrique Tarrio was not in Washington D.C. that day but prosecutors argued he was one of the chief architects of the riot as he was the head of the Proud Boys who led the assault on the Capitol. A jury agreed, convicting him of seditious conspiracy, and a judge handed out the longest sentence of any of the Jan. 6 defendants. Now with Trump set to take office next year, many of the imprisoned rioters are hoping he issues them pardons as he said he would while on the campaign trail.

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In an interview with South Florida NBC affiliate WTVJ, Tarrio’s mother Zuny Tarrio spoke directly to Trump.

“President Trump, I think my son and most of those J6, if not all, deserve to be home with their families,” she said. “We’ve suffered long enough.”

She said while the riot was unfortunate, the “government” should have prevented it before it happened.

“I don’t think anyone honestly likes what happened January 6th,” Zuny Tarrio said. “I think the way that it happened, shouldn’t have happened. I think the government could have stopped that in a lot of ways.”

At least five police officers who engaged with the violent mob died after Jan. 6. Dozens more were injured. Zuny Tarrio said when officers took an oath “there’s no guarantees of what happens when you do a job like that.” She also said the idea that her son was a leader of the riot is “far-fetched” because people who weren’t Proud Boys also committed violence.

“Enrique Tarrio wasn’t even there that day. He was not on the [Capitol] grounds,” she said. “He was not in Washington D.C. that day.”

She described the last few years with her son in prison as “horrific.”

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