Thread by @alanfeuer

BREAKING: Another Proud Boy leader has been arrested in connection w/the Capitol attack.
Prosecutors announced charges against ETHAN NORDEAN of Washington who was marched with Joe Biggs on Jan. 6

Nordean had been under close investigation for more than a week after prosecutors saw video of him leading a mob of about 100 Proud Boys toward the Capitol.
nytimes.com/live/2021/02/0…

Prosecutors say Nordean, the sergeant at arms of the Seattle PBs, wrote before the riot, "...We are coming for them...Black and yellow teamed with red, white and blue against everyone else.”
After the riot, he posted: “If you feel bad for the police, you are part of the problem."

Interesting detail in Nordean charging docs: Prosecutors say he had a brief conversation w/Robert Gieswein, an alleged 3 Percenter militiaman, before the Capitol attack.

Gieswein, left, was later photographed inside the Capitol w/Dominic Pezzola, center, another Proud Boy member who's been charged w/conspiracy.

“Nordean’s posts prior to Jan. 6 indicate that he and other Proud Boys were planning in advance to organize a group that would attempt to overwhelm police barricades and enter the US Capitol Building.”

Two days before the riot, prosecutors say, Nordean posted on Parler saying the Proud Boys were like right wing soldiers and would lead the way. “This stuff is real,” he wrote. “We are in a war.”

More Proud Boys news: Prosecutors have unsealed conspiracy indictment vs Nick Ochs, president of the PB's Hawaii chapter, and Nick DeCarlo who runs the PB's media outfit, Murder the Media.
They say the two conspired to raise $ to travel to DC & disrupt the election certification.

Ochs, left, and DeCarlo, right, are accused of writing "Murder the Media" on a door at the Capitol and of stealing flexicuffs belonging to Capitol Police.

The conspiracy indictment vs Ochs & DeCarlo is the second Proud Boys conspiracy case. The first involved Dominic Pezzola & William Pepe who were charged w/conspiring to obstruct & interfere w/police protecting the Capitol.