Far-right activist Henry "Enrique" Tarrio was arrested after an altercation at the U.S. Capitol on Friday, MSNBC reported.
Tarrio, a convicted seditionist, served as the chairman of the Proud Boys from 2018 to 2021. He, along with Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, were banned from Washington, D.C., though Rhodes had that ban lifted in January. It's unclear if Tarrio's ban is still in effect.
Both gathered for a protest outside the Capitol Friday.
The ban for Tarrio came prior to Jan. 6 2021 after he vandalized a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church. Rhodes was banned after Jan. 6.
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On Friday, Tarrio ended up in handcuffs, justice reporter Ryan Reilly told MSNBC. There were a number of Jan. 6 defendants who were also there on Jan. 6, he said.
"Yeah, we're figuring out exactly what this interaction was, but apparently, it had to do something with an interaction between him and a counter-protester," said Reilly in the report.
According to Reilly and his colleague Owen Hayes, Tarrio was in the custody of the U.S. Capitol Police.
Many far-right extremists are at the National Harbor in Maryland for the CPAC event, but on Friday, some came to the Capitol near where the building was first breached on the western front on January 6, 2021, Reilly said.
"They walked up and chanted, 'Whose house? Our house?' The same chant that they used on Jan. 6th. And then they proceeded to the east side of the U.S. Capitol," Reilly continued.
"Originally, they set up right on, sort of on the grounds of the Capitol, in sort of in the center of a staging area there. But the Capitol Police said that they couldn't set up there. So, they ended up, sort of, staging a little bit further away from the Capitol, but still sort of on the Capitol grounds, basically in between the Supreme Court and the Capitol."
There was a back-and-forth between the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and "counter-protesters trying to drown out the message."
Trump has pardoned or commuted the sentences of many Jan. 6 attackers.
“Success is going to be retribution,” Tarrio told right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a January interview.
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