Enrique Tarrio: Proud Boys not a militia

The Proud Boys are “not a militia,” and most members aren’t even political, their former chairman Enrique Tarrio says.

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00:00Let's turn the clock back a bit and talk a bit about what happened before January 6th.

00:05And I'd like to talk a bit about the Proud Boys, described by one British newspaper as a far-right militia group,

00:12labelled by the Anti-Defamation League as, quote,

00:15misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic, anti-immigration.

00:20What's your definition? What do the Proud Boys stand for?

00:23So I hate identity politics, but we do have one of our tenets is anti-racism.

00:32We don't care what colour or creed you are. We also don't care what religion you are,

00:37whether you're Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, it doesn't matter to us.

00:41All we ask of our members when they join is that they go out once a month to drink beer.

00:48We're not a militia. We don't train. We're not – I can't say we're a political group

00:55because that is not the focus of our organization.

00:59Our focus of our organization is just simply to make better men.

01:02Now, are a lot of our members political? Yes.

01:06But I'd say the grand majority of the guys, they're kind of like my mom back then.

01:10The most political thing that they've done is check a box every two years.