Enrique Tarrio’s mom speaks out about Proud Boys ex-leader’s 22-year prison sentence

The mother of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio on Thursday maintained her son’s innocence just days after he was sentenced to more than two decades in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, insisting that he had no serious role in the attack.

“Twenty-two years of sentencing seems, like, extremely excessive,” Zuny Duarte Tarrio said at a press conference in Miami. “It’s really hurting the families. All of the families.”

Speaking alongside her son’s defense attorney, Nayib Hassan, Duarte Tarrio called the government’s case against her son a “witch hunt” and decried how Tarrio’s family had already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend him against charges that he had sought to violently overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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