The former leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, returned home to Miami, Florida on Wednesday (January 22), after he was pardoned by President Trump for his role in the January 06, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump issued a sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the January 06 attack the day he took office, on Monday (January 20).
Among the pardoned were more than 300 who pleaded guilty to either assaulting or obstructing law enforcement, including 69 who admitted to assaulting police with a dangerous or deadly weapon. Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy.
Before the 2020 election, Trump told the Proud Boys – a violent all-male extremist group - to “stand back and stand by.”
Proud Boys member Gabriel Garcia welcomed Tarrio at Miami International Airport and later told reporters that Tarrio was a “political prisoner” and that the January 06 attack was “peaceful”.
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