Video footage was shown in the Proud Boys trial on Tuesday depicting a confrontation between police officers and two rioters. The video highlights moments from prominent participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The first part of the video shows Ray Epps behind a barricade, appearing to calm fellow rioters provoking a line of police. Epps, 61, is an Arizona man who was part of the riot supporting former President Donald Trump at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Epps became the focus of right-wing conspiracy theories claiming he was an undercover government operative and that the FBI orchestrated the insurrection. However, Epps has rejected any connections to the government, telling the Jan. 6 committee he marched in front of others and stopped in front of a Capitol barricade.
The second portion of the video is suspected to feature Zachary Rehl pepper-spraying an officer.
NEW: Video released in the Proud Boys trial depicts Ray Epps trying to calm/separate rioters who were face-to-face with a line of cops.
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Second video also includes moment in which prosecutors indicated Zach REHL may have pepper sprayed cops.
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Rehl, 37, led a Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys and was one of five members of the Proud Boys who were charged with seditious conspiracy in 2022. Images surfaced of Rehl shortly after the riot smoking inside the Capitol. Rehl testified this week in the seditious conspiracy trial that he did not recall pepper-spraying a police officer.
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Prosecutors showed footage of Rehl in which they indicated he pepper-sprayed the officers. Rehl questioned whether the man in the video was him and later suggested he could have been holding a recording device rather than the pepper spray.
Charges have not been brought against Rehl for assaulting an officer.