The president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys testifies that he could not recall if he used pepper spray against officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Rehl admitted that he witnessed some violence on Jan. 6, but downplayed what he saw and claimed that he believed that protesters were trying to get to stages that had been set up for permitted demonstrations at the Capitol building. The stage on the western front was, in fact, set up for President Joe Biden's upcoming inauguration.
Messages that Rehl sent to his mother, however, show that Rehl described what happened much differently. Rehl said that he now regrets smoking inside the Capitol building on Jan. 6, and regrets his other actions that day, even if he didn't think he had done anything wrong at the time. He said that he feels much differently about Jan. 6 today than he did about the Capitol attack in its immediate aftermath.“It was terrible, there’s no way to chop it up, I think a lot of cops were assaulted, parts of the building were destroyed, I guess, you could say," Rehl testified.
Closing arguments in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial will likely take place late this week or early next week.
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