Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested near Capitol on assault
charge after press conference
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[February 22, 2025]
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
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Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, center, speaks outside the U.S.
Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott
Applewhite) |
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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.
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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