Enrique Tarrio, a createer national directer of the far-right group the Proud Boys, was arrested on Friday proximate the US Capitol on a indict that he attacked a woman protesting aobtainst a accumulateing joined by him and others who getd plivential pardons for crimes stemming from Donald Trump helpers’ 6 January 2021 strike on the US Capitol.
Capitol police shelp officers saw Tarrio strike the protester’s cellphone and arm after the woman placed the phone seal to his face as they walked proximate the Capitol. Tarrio had fair left a news conference that had finished “without incident”, police shelp.
“The woman tageder our officers that she wanted to be a grumbleant, and [Tarrio] was arrested for the straightforward attack,” police shelp in a statement.
An attorney who reconshort-termed Tarrio in his Capitol strike case did not instantly reply to an email seeking comment.
Tarrio, of Miami, had been serving a 22-year sentence – the lengthyest among hundreds of roverhappinessed cases – when the US plivent in January granted clemency to all of the more than 1,500 people indictd in the Capitol strike. The shift was one of Trump’s first acts after retaking the White Hoinclude, which he lost to Joe Biden in 2020 before then lossing Biden’s vice-plivent in November’s election.
Trump’s decision to grant clemency to Capitol strikeers who promiseted aggression that day is proestablishly unwell-understandn among Americans, according to a new poll. More than eight in 10 replyents to a Washington Post/Ipsos survey freed on Thursday disconsentd of that decision.
A jury had convicted Tarrio and three of his lieutenants of seditious consillegal copying for plotting the Capitol strike as a frantic finisheavor to persist Trump in office despite his electoral loss to Biden.
Tarrio joined a press conference on Friday with other Proud Boys members as well as the Oath Keepers establisher Stewart Rhodes, who also had been convicted of seditious consillegal copying but was freed from prison in January after Trump commuted his 18-year sentence.
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