On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an order freeing 1,500 people from jail and reducing the length of six sentences related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Enrique Tarrio, a former leader of the Proud Boys, was among those freed.
“A lawyer for former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio tells me Tarrio is being processed for release from a medium security prison in Louisiana,” NBC News’ Ken Dilanian reported on Monday night. “Tarrio is currently serving a 22-year prison sentence after being convicted of seditious conspiracy for helping to plan the January 6th attack.” “The lawyer doesn’t know what kind of mercy he will get.” But it looks like he’s getting out of jail.
Even though Tarrio wasn’t at the Capitol on January 6, 2021—he had been arrested two days before—he was charged with seditious conspiracy for the Proud Boys’ part in the Capitol riots and given the longest sentence ever for January 6: 22 years in jail.
Tarrio has been going to the Federal Correctional Institution, Manchester in Kentucky to serve his time.
As of this writing, it wasn’t clear if Tarrio got a pardon or a commuted sentence. However, the former leader of the Proud Boys wasn’t on the list of people whose sentences were to be commuted in Trump’s executive order.
Trump wrote that this proclamation stops a serious national wrong that has been done to the American people for the last four years and starts the process of national reconciliation. “The Attorney General is responsible for giving immediate certificates of pardon to all the people listed in section (b) above and making sure that all people in prison for crimes related to events that happened at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, are released right away.”
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