Judge shuts down Proud Boys leader serving Jan. 6 sentence at trial for cop accused of being 'double agent'
Source: Law & Crime
Dec 6th, 2024, 2:11 pm
An imprisoned former leader of the Proud Boys extremist group clashed with a prosecutor and judge and refused to answer questions while testifying at the trial of a police officer accused of leaking information to him about a warrant for his arrest.
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio testified on Thursday as a defense witness in the bench trial of retired Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond in front of U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, a Barack Obama appointee. Lamond is accused of working as a “double agent” ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and tipping off Tarrio about his impending arrest for burning a Black Lives Matter flag in front of an historically Black Washington, D.C., church.
Lamond is charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to police about his conversations with Tarrio, who is serving a 22-year prison sentence for his role in organizing the riot, the longest sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant.
Tarrio complained the prosecutor, Rebecca Ross, shouldn’t have “free reign” to ask him about Jan. 6, The Associated Press reported. “This case is not a Jan. 6 case,” he told the judge, arguing he didn’t “completely” waive his Fifth Amendment rights, according to the wire service. “There is not a half of a Fifth Amendment privilege,” Jackson responded, according to the AP. When Tarrio told her, “We’ll agree to disagree,” the judge chuckled and replied, “Well, I’ll just say, ‘You’re not in charge.'”
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Full headline: ‘You’re not in charge’: Judge shuts down Proud Boys leader serving Jan. 6 sentence at trial for cop accused of being ‘double agent’
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