Roughly two months later, Proud Boys were videotaped shaking hands with Philadelphia police after they staged a fascist march through the city, flashing white power signs while denouncing leftists and “Antifa” as terrorists. Last July, it was revealed that dozens of Philadelphia Proud Boys were welcomed to listen to a speech Vice President Mike Pence gave at the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 headquarters in Pennsylvania. Tarrio's fascist, racist and anti-Semitic organization, which Donald Trump infamously ordered to “stand back and stand by” during a presidential debate last September, has a history of cozying up to police departments across the country in order to terrorize protesters against police violence. The FBI agent called Tarrio a “key component” in local police investigations involving marijuana, cocaine and MDMA, or ecstasy. Tarrio’s then-lawyer Jeffery Feiler, said in court proceedings that Tarrio was instrumental in helping police uncover three marijuana grow houses, and was a “prolific” cooperator. The former federal prosecutor in Tarrio’s case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, told Reuters that Tarrio, “cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes.” When confronted with the court transcript by a Reuters journalist, Tarrio suffered an apparent bout of amnesia. In an interview last year, Tarrio boasted of his fondness for Trump and the close connections he had with the campaign, claiming that he “personally knocked on 40,000 doors for the president” and was a close personal friend of long-time Trump political crony and fixer, Roger Stone.
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The revelation further underscores the need for a full public investigation into the fascist insurrection on January 6, including all communications made between Tarrio, police, federal agents and Republican politicians. While the Pround Boys is not an entirely state-run organization, there is no doubt that Tarrio is not the only agent provocateur operating in the group. Far-right militias such as the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and the III percenters, all of which participated in the January 6 coup attempt on the Capitol, are riddled with police, current and former military members and paid agents of the state. A right-wing protester carries his rifle at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan in an April 30 demonstration against Whitmer
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