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Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
Politics “I ask you that you not take my 40s from me.” Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. AP By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press September 5, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot […]
DA issues rare statement condemning conspiracy theories, harassment in Karen Read case
Crime “It should be an outrage to any decent person, and it needs to stop. Innuendo is not evidence. False narratives are not evidence.” Karen Read, a Mansfield woman charged with murder for allegedly killing her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe, appeared in Norfolk Superior Court in May. John Tlumacki/Boston Globe Staff, File The […]
Conspiracy theories about FEMA’s Oct. 4 emergency alert test spread online
Technology One popular video shows a woman claiming the test will somehow switch on technology that has been introduced into people’s bodies. The first test of the national wireless emergency system by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is shown on a cellular phone in Detroit, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. AP Photo/Paul Sancya Claim: An emergency […]
Fearful restaurant owner sues Franklin, N.H., alleging conspiracy of retaliation
The Boston Globe “If something happens to me, who would I even call?” said the owner of the Broken Spoon, who has been harassed by white supremacists and rebuked by local law enforcement. Miriam Kovacs is suing the city of Franklin, N.H., and alleging a civil conspiracy to violate her free speech rights. JIM DAVIS […]