WERE AT THE HEAD OF THE PACK
WHEN THE CAPITOL WAS STORMED.
>> PROUD BOYS.
>> Reporter: AMONG THE PROUD OF
RIOTERS THAT STORMED THE
CAPITOL, AUTHORITIES SAY MEMBERS
OF THE PROUD BOYS WERE OUT
FRONT.
VIDEO SHOWS A PROUD BOYS LEADER
JOE BIGS WALKING INTO THE
CAPITOL.
>> BIGS, WHAT YOU GOT TO SAY?
>> THIS IS AWESOME.
>> Reporter: HE HAS BEEN CHARGED
WITH OBSTRUCTING CONGRESS,
ENTERING A RESTRICTED BUILDING
AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
HE’S ONE OF AT LEAST SIX PROUD
BOYS CHARGED.
INCLUDING DOMINIC PEZOLA WHO
SMASHED A CAPITOL WINDOW.
IN COURT DOCUMENTS, IT’S SAID HE
APPEARED TO HAVE AN EAR PIECE IN
HIS EAR AND BIGS HAD A
WALKIE-TALKIE.
AND INDIVIDUALS WERE BELIEVED TO
BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROUD
BOYS, THE AGENT SAYS.
>> THEY WERE SOME OF THE MOST
MILITANT PEOPLE THERE BECAUSE
THEY WERE USED TO IT.
THEY SPENT THE LAST FEW YEARS
RAMPING UP AND RACK TISING.
>> Reporter: BEN COLLINS HAS
BEEN COVERING THE PROUD BOYS
MOVEMENT WHICH FORMED IN 2016.
THE GROUP OF MOSTLY WHITE MEN
CALLING THEMSELVES WESTERN
CHAUVINISTS, FIGHTING WHAT THEY
CALL ANTI-MALE BIAS.
>> IT STARTED SMALL.
IN FACT, THERE WERE INITIATION
RITUALS.
TO BE INITIATED, YOU HAD TO BE
BEATEN UP WHILE LISTING FIVE
BREAKFAST CEREALS.
THAT’S A REAL THING YOU HAD TO
DO.
IT WAS JUVENILE.
>> Reporter: AFTER THAT
DISTURBING AND VIOLENT WHITE
NATIONALIST RALLY IN
CHARLOTTESVILLE IN 2017, THE
PROUD BOYS GREW LARGER.
>> THEY WOULD INVITE IN WHITE
NATIONALISTS AND VARIOUS
ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTED TO
FIGHTING IN THE STREET.
THEY WOULD MEET AT
COUNTERPROTESTS OF BLACK LIVE
MATTERS PROTESTS.
>> Reporter: IN OREGON THEY’D
SHOW UP TO FIGHT LEFT WING ANTE
FA SUPPORTERS AND AFTER
PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED THEM OUT.
>> PROUD BOYS STAND BACK AND
STAND BY.
>> Reporter: THEY GREW BOLDER
VIEWING THEMSELVES AS PROTECTORS
OF THE PRESIDENT.
>> THE CAPITOL, BOYS.
[ BLEEP ] AWESOME.
I KNEW WE COULD TAKE IT.
>> Reporter: HOW DOES HE EXPLAIN
HIS ACTIONS THAT DAY?
>> IT GOT OUT OF CONTROL.
>> Reporter: AN ATTORNEY DROIBS
A MAN AS A FATHER OF TWO FROM
NEW YORK.
A FORMER MARINE AND BUSINESS
OWNER WHO STRUGGLED DURING THE
PANDEMIC.
>> HE’S FIRST GENERATION ITALIAN
AMERICAN.
LOVES THIS COUNTRY.
ANYONE WILL TELL YOU THIS WASN’T
DOMINIC SIX MONTHS AGO.
I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE
LURED IN BY INTERNET TROLLS AND
GROUPS.
>> Reporter: HE SAYS THE EAR
PIECE THE FBI NOTED WAS FOR
LISTENING TO MUSIC AND THAT THE
PROUD BOYS ARE NOT THE ORGANIZED
MACHINE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE.
>> THEY WERE THREE OR FOUR GUYS
THAT MET IN A BAR, MAYBE IN
SKUS, AND THEY DRANK A LOT OF
BEERS AND VENTED.
>> Reporter: THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
PROUD BOYS WAS NOT AT THE
CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6TH.
HE WAS ARRESTED TWO DAYS BEFORE,
CHARGED WITH POSSESSING HIGH
CAPACITY GUN MAGAZINES.
AND ON WEDNESDAY, NEW
REVELATIONS.
TRANSCRIPTS KNOW TARIO HELPED
MIAMI POLICE AND THE FBI IN
2014.
HIS OWN LAWYER BACK THEN CALLING
HIM A PROLIFIC COOPERATOR.
>> IT’S GOING TO BE HARD FOR A
LOT OF THE PEOPLE IN THAT
COMMUNITY TO EVER TRUST THAT
PERSON AGAIN.
THEY HAVE SPECIFIC WORDS IN THAT
COMMUNITY FOR BASICALLY
SNITCHES.
THEY DON’T VIEW THEM KINDLY AT
ALL.
>> Reporter: WE REACHED OUT TO
TARIO AND DIDN’T HEAR BACK.
IN AN INTERVIEW HE DENIED
WORKING WITH POLICE.
HE TOLD "THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL" THE PROUD BOYS DIDN’T
COORDINATE THEIR ACTIONS OR
INTEND TO STORM THE CAPITAL.
WE ALSO REACHED OUT TO A LAWYER
FOR JOE BIGS, THEY DECLINED TO
COMMENT.
BIGS DENIED KNOWLEDGE OF ANY
PRELANPRE
PREPLANNING STORMING THE
CAPITOL.
>> WHAT’S HAPPENED TO THE STATE
OF THE PROUD BOYS ORGANIZATION
SINCE THE RIOTS AND SINCE THE
LATEST CHARGES?
>> Reporter: YEAH.
IT’S INTERESTING.
MANY PROUD BOYS WERE UNHAPPY
THAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP
DIDN’T FIGHT HARDER TO STAY IN
OFFICE, SO SOME HAVE TURNED ON
FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH MANY
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS NOW
RESTRICTING THE GROUP, THEY DO
HAVE A BIG PRESENCE NOW ON