Informer Insider Helped Feds Investigate Kansas City Proud Boys

Everybody talks . . . This is a good reason to say on the straight and narrow path . . . Or maybe abandon fantasies that playing dress up is good for Democracy.

Today's example . . .

The FBI was working with an informant inside the Kansas City Proud Boys chapter in 2020 who warned the agency about the potential for violence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to records a far-right website says it received from a whistleblower.

That informant, a “second-degree” Proud Boy, breached the Capitol along with other members that day, sending text messages to a handler as the insurrection was underway, the records show.

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Informant was inside KC Proud Boys chapter, warned FBI of Jan. 6 concerns, records show

The FBI was working with an informant inside the Kansas City Proud Boys chapter in 2020 who warned the agency about the potential for violence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to records a far-right website says it received from a whistleblower.

://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article263610093.html

Reality check . . . This is somethign that most suspected last year . . .

Proud Boys leader was government informant, records show

The leader of the Proud Boys, who was arrested in Washington shortly before the Capitol riot, previously worked undercover and cooperated with investigators after he was accused of fraud in 2012, court documents show. Henry "Enrique" Tarrio helped law enforcement in a variety of investigations nearly a decade ago by providing information and going undercover, the records show.

Developing . . .