Reports: Proud Boys Leader Arrested Over Burning Of Church’s Black Lives Matter Banner | Talking Points Memo

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The leader of the right-wing street gang the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested Monday, according to several reports.

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Aggravated arson / hate crime combo platter?

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Can Trump pardon for crimes committed in DC?

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No, but he can award a Presidential Medal of Fluffers!

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The Twitter thread is replete with threats against Mayor Bowser, BLM “flag burners”, etc. Ugly ugly people.

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Why’d it take the popo so long to arrest him? Trying to clean house right before the next round in D.C.?

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It’s a start.

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Arrest every damn one of them.

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We locals are being advised to avoid going downtown the next two days.

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The paperwork required to search his mother’s basement was murder!

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All the more reason to show up, and people will after dark.

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Yes

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The left can burn right wing people’s flags, signs and banners and nothing happens.

Is any of that true or are they just pulling shit out of their asses again?

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When you arrest a member of a terrorist organization, you generally strive to obtain a roster of members, then use a network analysis tool to find all the connections and roles. Great to hear that a city is capable of doing what the full faith and credit of the USA finds impossible.

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"This country is beyond fucked”

Maybe, maybe not, but you are fucked.

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And now the big question: Which incel block to house him in.

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Tarrio was arrested on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter banner […] “So let me make this simple,” he wrote online. “I did it.”

Swoon.

My hero!

Keeping me safe from … a banner?

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Are we to believe that all the arrested for bad shit that goes down on 06Jan are getting pardons? Has Trump communicated a literal get-outta-jail card to his thugs yet?

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No the Proud Boys are. hahahahahahahaha Which makes the country a whole lot less fucked than it might otherwise be.

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No bail until, say, Thursday morning?

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