Proud Boys leader arrested

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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been arrested this evening in relation to destruction of property during a recent rally. It turns out there are legal consequences for ripping a Black Lives Matter banner off a church building and destroying it.

This is the latest reminder that if Trump’s racist goons want to keep acting out like this, the law will catch up with them. They can’t just go berserk on January 6th and somehow magically get something out of it.

– If Richard Nixon had gone to prison for his crimes in office, we might never have had criminals like Reagan, Bush or Trump. It’s yet another reason Trump must end up in prison – and he will.

– Tweet of the day, from actor James Morrison: “What anti-maskers who storm stores, endanger lives, and mock the dead and dying are saying is that masks don’t do any good and they’d be fine if we walked into their OR without masks as they undergo surgery. We wouldn’t do that, of course, because we value their right to life.”