FBI Special Agent Nicholas Kaiser offered testimony on Wednesday about the evidence the bureau found in Proud Boys defendant Joseph Biggs’ Florida home.
Jurors saw two neck gaiters seized from his home. One of them appeared to be a “Blue Lives Matter” style gaiter. There was also a megaphone seized from Biggs’ home that was emblazoned with more than two dozen “1776” stickers.
Agents also seized a protective vest with the Proud Boys symbol on it. The vest contained plates inside of it. Agent Kaiser said it was similar to what agents might wear when entering a situation where they believed they might be harmed.
The plates are intended to stop bullets as well as knives. Kaiser did not say what specific size plate was found in the vest.
Kaiser also held up a large black Proud Boys flag specific to the network’s Florida division. It featured a skull-and-crossbones and the Proud Boys logo.
More Proud Boys-emblazoned attire was found too, including a black tee shirt with the group’s logo on the front and across the back: “Being disarmed in the face of tyrants is a mistake free people make only once. Live free, remain armed.”
Another shirt found in Biggs home read: “Proud Boys American as Fuck” and featured the image of the American flag. An assault-style weapon is featured beneath it.
A patch was also found. It states, ‘Proud Boys: The West is Best.” The slogan would be in-line with the group’s self-proclaimed “western chauvinist” ideology.
There were five challenge coins seized from Biggs’ Florida residence too. Challenge coins are common among members of law enforcement or even the military. They are usually exchanged when a person assists another agency or it can show where you have participated in an event. Sometimes challenge coins will feature an inside joke.
The challenge coins seized from Biggs home included at least one where the U.S. Capitol was etched large in the center. Around the coin, the message: “Glorious Bastards Independence Day 2020.
On the back of another challenge coin is an image of the Whtie House with fireworks above it and someone riding a scooter.
On another coin, there appear to be three men talking with the slogan “Cute Dick Squad’ above them.
Jurors have been excused for lunch for about an hour. Once they left, defense attorney Nick Smith took issue with the presentation of the coins. He was particularly upset about the “Cute Dick Squad” coin because he said he heard people laughing about it in the chamber.
Though Smith argued the coin was irrelevant, Judge Kelly disagreed. The coins go toward the argument that the defendants had a relationship.