‘F—ing oathbreakers:’ Jan. 6 rioter who taunted Capitol police that ‘you work for us’ during violent front-line surge, then blamed his son’s autism diagnosis is going to prison

Jeffrey Reed

Background: Jeffrey Reed, circled, on Jan. 6. Inset: Reed’s tattoo representing his membership of the Three Percenters group. (DOJ).

A Proud Boys member and Three Percenter will go to prison for the next two-and-a-half years for fighting with cops and breaking into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.

Jeffrey David Reed, 49, of Texas, will also be on probation for two years following his release and must pay a $2,000 fine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a press release. During a bench trial, U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg found Reed guilty of a felony offense of civil disorder and misdemeanor offenses of entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

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At the time of the riot, Reed lived in upstate New York and was a member of the Proud Boys’ Hudson Valley chapter in New York. Prosecutors said the day before the breach, Proud Boys president Enrique Tarrio added Reed to the “Boots on the Ground” text message group that included members who were in Washington, D.C., for then-President Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally.

Reed seemed eager for a plan.

“This is so unorganized! Where is our order?” and “No f—ing support so far” and “no f—in plan either,” he texted. Joseph Biggs, another Proud Boys leader, told him the group was not going to plan anything for Jan. 5 and “Tomorrow’s the day,” prosecutors wrote in Reed’s sentencing memorandum. The group met on the morning of Jan. 6 at the Washington Monument to hash out their plans.

Outfitted with a radio, Reed was on the front line of rioters who began shoving metal bike racks out of the way, which allowed the mob to surge forward, putting Capitol police officers in a “precarious” position, cops wrote. Cops kept retreating and forming new lines to stop rioters. But each time Reed and the revelers broke through police.

As Reed approached another police line, he pointed at one of the officer’s faces and shouted “You work for us,” the memo said. The crowd reached another line of bike racks and Reed started wrangling one with a cop.

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