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Summary
Enrique Tarrio, the pardoned former Proud Boys leader, confronted and insulted police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, calling one a “coward.”
He followed officers Michael Fanone, Harry Dunn, and Aquilino Gonell at a Washington hotel hosting the Principles First summit. The officers denounced his actions and Trump’s mass pardons of January 6 rioters.
The incident followed Tarrio’s recent arrest for assault near the Capitol.
Officers at the summit warned that Trump’s pardons embolden extremists and urged resistance against his political movement.
holy shit… i suspect ET will get himself killed within the next few years
He’d be dead if tried that shit with a member of basically any other police force. Capital Police (and to a lesser extent, the Secret Service) are pretty restrained since their main job is to protect lawmakers and not investigate violent crime and get in dangerous situations arresting people. (In DC, Metro PD does that.)
The Secret Service, for some reason, also investigates forgery. From their web site:
Also from their Website :
“We are one of America’s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, originally created in 1865 to stamp out rampant counterfeiting in order to stabilize America’s young financial system. By the end of the Civil War, nearly one-third of all currency in circulation was counterfeit. As a result, the country’s financial stability was in jeopardy. To address this concern, the Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to suppress widespread counterfeiting.”
They were investigating forgery before protecting presidents. Just so happens in 1901 there weren’t a lot of federal agencies with as much power and experience as them so they got tapped for the new job of protecting the president.
this cracked me up.
They have to protect Trump and the financial infrastructure?! Talk about a conflicted list of priorities.
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