Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested near Capitol – Washington Examiner
Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Friday for allegedly assaulting a woman who was protesting an event he attended. The incident occurred as Capitol police witnessed Tarrio strike the woman’s cellphone and arm after she held her phone close to his face. Tartio had just left a news conference when the confrontation took place. The woman expressed her desire to file a complaint, leading to tarrio’s arrest for simple assault.
Previously, tarrio had been serving a lengthy 22-year sentence for his involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the longest among those charged in relation to the events of that day. However, he received clemency from former President Donald Trump last month, alongside over 1,500 others involved in the uprising. Tarrio had earlier been convicted of seditious conspiracy concerning a plot to disrupt the peaceful transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election. He was attending the press conference alongside other members of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, who also had his sentence commuted recently.
Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested near Capitol on assault charge after press conference
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol on a charge that he assaulted a woman protesting a gathering attended by Tarrio and others who received presidential pardons for crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the nation’s capital.
Capitol police said officers saw Tarrio strike the protester’s cellphone and arm after the woman placed the phone close to his face as they walked near the Capitol. Tarrio had just left a news conference that had ended “without incident,” police said.
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“The woman told our officers that she wanted to be a complainant, and the man was arrested for the simple assault,” police said in a statement.
An attorney who represented Tarrio in his Capitol riot case didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Tarrio, of Miami, was serving a 22-year sentence — the longest among hundreds of Capitol riot cases — when President Donald Trump granted clemency last month to all 1,500-plus people charged in the Jan. 6 attack.
A jury convicted Tarrio and three of his lieutenants of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Trump to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
Tarrio attended a press conference Friday with other Proud Boys and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who also was convicted of seditious conspiracy but freed from prison last month after Trump commuted his 18-year sentence.
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