Judge Denies Proud Boys Leader’s Request for Early Release

Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the person of the alt-right Proud Boys who is serving a five-month condemnation for stealing and burning a Black Lives Matter banner from a D.C. religion successful December, had his petition for aboriginal merchandise denied by a justice who ruled that mediocre surviving conditions successful the jailhouse are not a capable crushed for Tarrio to beryllium released and placed nether location arrest.

D.C. Superior Court Judge Jonathan H. Pittman acknowledged that helium believes Tarrio’s allegations regarding jailhouse conditions and the mistreatment he’s faced but said Tarrio didn’t beryllium immoderate “extraordinary and compelling reasons” for wherefore helium deserves aboriginal release.

Tarrio received a 155-day situation condemnation successful August and began serving his condemnation successful September.  He had requested that his condemnation beryllium reduced to 90 days oregon that helium beryllium allowed to decorativeness it successful location confinement.

“I’ve been to jailhouse earlier and what I’ve seen here, I’ve ne'er seen anyplace else,” Tarrio told Pittman past week. “This spot needs to beryllium unopen down immediately.”

“It is evidently distressing to perceive of these conditions,” Pittman said astatine the time. “I travel backmost to the aforesaid question: How is Mr. Tarrio’s information immoderate antithetic than immoderate different inmate astatine the jail?”