Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years in prison for January 6

Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and leading a failed plot to prevent the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

The sentence from District Judge Timothy Kelly is the longest given to anyone in relation to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.

Tarrio leaned against a podium at the front of the courtroom and hung his head as the judge handed down his sentence. Three other members of Proud Boys leadership were also found guilty of seditious conspiracy and sentenced last week.

"The jury didn't convict anyone for engaging in politics, they convicted Mr. Tarrio and others of engaging in seditious conspiracy," Kelly said Tuesday. "I don't have any indication that he is remorseful for the actual things he is convicted of, which is seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct the counting of electoral votes."

"Mr. Tarrio was the ultimate leader of that conspiracy," Kelly added. "I don't really think this is super debatable."

Tarrio had been arrested in Washington, DC, days before the riot for burning a DC church's Black Lives Matter banner and bringing high-capacity rifle magazines into the district, and was ordered by a judge to leave the city.

Before he was sentenced, Tarrio apologized for the "pain and suffering" that law enforcement, legislators, and others suffered on January 6, and vowed to have "nothing to do with politics, groups, activism or rallies."