Proud Boys bozo busted in Florida
Proud Boys provocateur Joe Biggs, who promoted and participated in the riotous attempt to take over the U.S. government, has been arrested in Florida, federal authorities said.
Biggs, a right-wing media personality and conspiracy theorist, was charged in federal documents two weeks after he was filmed inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 building assault.
Biggs, 37, had promoted the rally that led to the riot, boasting that the Proud Boys would be “blending in” during the event and that “Jan 6th is gonna be epic,” according to an FBI affidavit.
The affidavit also noted that several Proud Boys members were wearing earpieces during the Capitol breach.
The complaint against Biggs (photo) notes that another Proud Boys member was seen breaking the window of the U.S. Capitol building with a clear plastic shield, and that Biggs was apparently filmed inside the Capitol in a video posted to right-wing social media platform Parler.
“In the video, a voice off camera says, ‘Hey Biggs, what do you gotta say?’ The person depicted below smiles broadly and replies, ‘This is awesome!’ before pulling his gaiter up to cover his face,” an FBI special agent wrote in an affidavit.
The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested ahead of the rally and ordered to stay out of Washington, D.C.
Biggs told FBI agents that he had entered the Capitol building, but claimed the doors were already open when he went inside. Biggs also denied “having any knowledge of any preplanned storming of the Capitol, and had no idea who planned it,” according to court documents.
Biggs, a resident of Ormond Beach, Fla., northeast of Orlando, was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.
Meanwhile, QAnon conspiracy theorists who supported the Capital riots and believed President Biden would never take office were disappointed Wednesday that Donald Trump left office without orchestrating mass arrests of those they believe were behind a cabal of child-abusing Satanists who control Washington.
Ron Watkins — believed to have written many online posts attributed to Q, the mysterious character behind the conspiracy theory — wrote that it was time for QAnon backers to move on.