Enrique Talio, a former national leader of the far-right group, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of attacking a woman protesting the rally he and the person he attended near the U.S. Capitol. Donald Trump supporters attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Capitol police said officers saw Talio hit the protester’s phone and arm after the woman placed the phone near her face as she walked near Capitol. Police said Talio had just left the press conference that ended “without incidents.”
“The woman told our officer she wanted to be the petitioner and (Talio) was arrested for a simple assault,” police said in a statement.
The attorney who represented Talio in the Capitol attack did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Miami’s Talio had sentenced the US president to 22 years in January to admit to tolerant to all over 1,500 people charged with the Capitol attack. The move was one of Trump’s first actions after seizing the White House, where he defeated Biden’s vice-president in the November election after losing to Joe Biden in 2020.
According to a new poll, Trump’s decision to admit to tolerance for Capitol attackers who committed violence that day was deeply unpopular among Americans. More than eight out of ten respondents in the Washington Post/IPSOS survey released Thursday disapproved the decision.
The ju judges incited Talio and his three EUs for plotting the Capitol attack in a desperate attempt to get Trump to take office despite his election defeat to Biden. Three people were found guilty of the conspiracy.
Talio attended a press conference Friday with other proud boy members and founder of Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes.
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