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Proud Boys leader faces serious new Jan. 6 charges · Apple News Today

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  Shumita Basu, Narrating: Good morning! It's Tuesday, June 7th. I'm Shumita Basu. This is "Apple News Today." Each morning, hear about some of the most fascinating stories in the news, and how the world's best journalists are covering them.
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  Members of the far-right group the Proud Boys face serious new charges related to the January 6th attack on the Capitol. These major new charges come as the committee investigating the insurrection prepares to hold long-awaited public hearings. A federal grand jury indicted leader Enrique Tarrio and four other members of the Proud Boys on seditious conspiracy charges. NBC News justice reporter Ryan Reilly is working on a book about January 6th.
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  Ryan Reilly: This is a big development, definitely a new group they're using the seditious conspiracy charges against and is especially interesting ahead of this prime time hearing on Thursday.
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  The indictment says Tarrio was aware of plans to storm the Capitol and involved in discussions about occupying buildings on the Hill. It also reveals exchanges in the aftermath of the insurrection. After the election certification was disrupted, someone writes to Tarrio: "Dude. Did we just influence history?" His reply: "Let's first see how this plays out."
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  Tarrio's attorney says his client looks forward to his day in court. Tarrio previously pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiring to obstruct Congress or impede police. This latest charge, seditious conspiracy, that's conspiring to overthrow the government or prevent the execution of U.S. law, it's a historically rare charge. This is the first time it's been used against Proud Boys members. Previously, several members of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers, were indicted on seditious conspiracy charges related to January 6th.
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  Seven states go to the polls today and we're going to focus on California's primary. Governor Gavin Newsom looks like he'll cruise to a pretty easy victory. And that's in spite of the recall vote he faced last year. But let's zoom in on the other races in the state, where there's a different storyline worth pulling out. In many states so far, the question has been how much influence Trump has over GOP voters. In California, we're seeing interesting battles within the Democratic Party over progressive voters. And a lot of them are playing out in local races that are further down the ballot.
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  Phil Willon: I mean, not to steal a phrase from "Stranger Things" but it's kind of an upside down election.
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  "L.A. Times" political reporter Phil Willon says he's watching races in major cities. Take the L.A. mayor's race: the two frontrunners are Democratic Congresswoman Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, a billionaire developer who switched from Republican to Democrat. Caruso has poured his fortune into the race. And he's gotten endorsements from celebrities including Snoop Dogg and Kim Kardashian. Willon says Caruso is arguing that a non-traditional politician like him is the right choice to fix the issues in L.A., from homelessness to crime.
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  Willon: He's coming in as kind of an outsider, saying "I'm gonna clean up L.A." We had kind of the same message of the last Republican mayor, which was Richard Riordan, back in the nineties. And so it's kind of the same playbook and so it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
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  Another big race to watch is in San Francisco. District Attorney Chesa Boudin was elected back in 2019 after campaigning on a different approach to criminal justice.
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  Willon: He's not throwing the book at people. He has a new perspective on how to handle criminals now than a lot of like lock 'em up, throw away the key type of people. But San Francisco has been inundated. I mean, everyone has seen all the TV coverage of these smash and grab robberies, you have drug use that's rampant, out in the open, you have a lot of homelessness, and so he's getting blamed for it.
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  Concern over crime is why Boudin is now facing a recall. It's a race that's testing the limits of progressive criminal justice policy, with national implications.
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  Willon: I mean, this'll be kind of a bellwether to find out just how Democrats will be affected by this, and especially progressive prosecutors.
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  Today's primaries also set the stage for California's congressional races in the general election, which could tilt the balance of power in the House.
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  In the past few years, doorbell cameras have really taken off. They let you capture and record what's going on near your front door, in theory to catch someone who's trespassing, vandalizing, or otherwise doing something bad on your property. It can definitely play into your paranoia as a homeowner. But what about for the people being watched?
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  Sarah Lageson: There's definitely at least millions of home security devices out there. So, you know, when you're walking down this street, there's a really good chance that you're showing up on somebody's device, which is just a totally new way for us to operate in the world.
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  That's Sarah Lageson, a sociologist at Rutgers University Newark School of Criminal Justice. She recently wrote about this for "WIRED," how so many people are ending up in surveillance footage without even knowing it. And what she wanted to figure out was, do these unsuspecting, unconsenting people captured on doorbell cam footage have any rights? Now, for the most part this kind of footage won't end up anywhere publicly. But some people are putting clips up on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, either to get laughs or to shame people.
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  Lageson: It's a very tricky and slippery slope, I think, once it starts to make it onto social media. And then of course, once it's out there, it's out there, and there's been stories of people who have been accused of doing something wrong.
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  Lageson said homeowners sometimes jump to unfair conclusions based entirely on a person's appearance.
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  Lageson: So often someone will see a Black person in a predominantly white neighborhood and post a video and claim that this person's being suspicious when they're obviously not.
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  When it comes to legal recourse, Lageson told us, the law falls on the side of the person who owns the camera. As she put it, in the U.S., we don't have very strong privacy rights. So instead, it boils down to ethics.
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  Lageson: We have the legal right to post it, but should we do it? And if we do do it, you know, what are the harms? And I think that some of the harms is this idea of the normalization of surveillance that everywhere you go, you're currently at risk of having video content of yourself being posted online.
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  Lageson says people tend to want it both ways. We want to be able to watch the world because it makes us feel safe. But we don't want the cameras watching us because it makes us feel violated. That tension, between security and privacy, is why the ethics around doorbell cams are so murky.
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  We're getting close to the end of the NHL playoffs. And in recent months, something pretty weird's been going on in the stands. Just listen to this chant at a New Jersey Devils game.
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  Crowd: Let's go refs! Let's go refs!
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  They're chanting "Let's go refs." And they're dressed as referees, in black and white stripes. Now, refs are used to getting booed and cursed at by fans, but "The Wall Street Journal" looks into this growing group who show up to hockey games to cheer for the officials.
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  It started as a joke, and for many that's all that it is, but this fringe cheering section has gotten bigger and bigger. They cheer when the ref drops the puck, they'll yell encouraging things like, "Wow, great call!" It's also a celebration of sportsmanship, it's like the total opposite of trash talk. And maybe it comes in handy as the playoffs unfold. Even after your team is knocked out, you can always cheer for the referees.
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And when you're in the app, keep listening to hear narrated articles from our News+ partners. We'll talk with you again tomorrow.
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