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Proud Boys leaders stand trial for sedition over Capitol attack

  • Jurors are deliberating whether to convict five leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group for conspiring to violently stop the transfer of power from Trump to Biden.
  • The jury saw videos of a Proud Boy knocking a Black woman to the ground at a November 2020 protest and another showing defendant Zachary Rehl pepper-spraying police on Jan. 6.
  • Defense witnesses tried to counter the prosecution's evidence but also exposed the jury to crude jokes about Jewish people and women.
  • The trial began more than three months ago and is one of the most significant from the Justice Department's Jan. 6 investigation.
  • Prosecutors say the defendants plotted to keep Trump in office through violence, while the defense says they came to provide security at pro-Trump rallies.
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