That was one Proud Boy who was not sent to the Capitol by the FBI on January 6th.
The FBI released a report that there were 26 CHI's there that day. Patel clarified that the FBI only sent 3 there. There other 23 went on their own accord without the FBI's knowledge. James Knowles was one of the 23.
The speaker fulfilled a demand of the far right, which has sought thousands of hours of footage to try to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack.
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One of the F.B.I. informants in the crowd on Jan. 6 was James Ehren Knowles, a member of the Proud Boys Kansas City chapter. Right-wing politicians and pundits have sought to spin Mr. Knowles’s presence at the Capitol into a narrative suggesting that the bureau used covert operatives to instigate the riot, but he told a very different story under oath during the Proud Boys’ seditious conspiracy trial.
Mr. Knowles testified that he was not acting “at the direction of the F.B.I.” that day, but had joined the crowd as a member of the far-right group — or what a prosecutor described as “an independent human” making his own decisions.
“You were not there as an agent of the United States government in any formal sense, correct?” the prosecutor asked Mr. Knowles.
“No,” he answered.