Go and look at the NY Time's minute-by-minute video of the January 6 attack. Proud Boys were trying to get into the Capitol building before President Trump's speech was even ending. A Proud Boy was the first one to start breaking glass (with a stolen police riot shield) in the Capitol. Proud Boys in tactical gear were the people who lead the charge on the east side of the Capitol, and were the ones who were using radios to tell each other where the weak points in the police line were. They did *not* just walk in after other people were inside, they were at the front of an attempt to murder members of Congress and the Vice President.
OK about the video. Problems abound : Proud Boys became famous because Trump "evoked" them? Not mentioning that it was Biden who brought them up in the debate and who arguably made them famous by doing that. Later cutting the part of Trump's speech when he says "peacefully" because that doesn't fit the narrative. They even put voices saying "take the capitol" on top of Trump's voice. Not because they didn't have a better recording, but in case you didn't get the NYT message.
Had to chuckle that they show as part of the evidence a Republican who says "by and large it was a peaceful protest", when Democrats have been doing just that throughout 2020s riots, which actually affected normal people, burned parts of cities down, and lead to a spiral of violence that still has not abated. They looted right in front of my face in my neighborhood for instance. In both cases it rings hollow, but holy crap how much bigger the Democrat lie was. And I have noticed a refusal on the left to acknowledge that 2020 had something to do with Jan 6. Of course it did, people felt threatened by violence all across the country, but that correlation isn't mentioned even once. They also try to point out the irony of rioters supporting the police, when that irony clearly also goes both ways.
They show a lot of Proud Boys at first (although not Enrique Tarrio, who wasn't there, according to Tarrio because the Proud Boys hadn't planned anything for that day), but during the riots mostly two or three show up. The large group seems to have been dissolved. Could it be that Tarrio is telling the truth? One who is clearly involved (Ethan Nordean) everyone agrees is a member. So yes, members were there during the breach, I'll give you that.
Here's something weird; in most catastrophes etc. numbers of reported dead rise after a while, as what happened becomes more clear and bodies are counted. In this case the number of dead fell from 5 to 2 (both Trump supporters). Sounds a bit like the media were trying hard to make it sound worse than it was.