Proud Boys leader who burned a BLM banner reports to jail despite last-ditch effort to get the judge to recuse himself
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio pleaded guilty to burning a Black Lives Matter banner in December.
His attorney filed a motion on Saturday to have the judge removed and to reduce Tarrio's sentence.
Tarrio was sentenced to five months in jail in August, and reported to jail on Monday night.
The attorney for Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio filed a last-ditch motion on Saturday to reduce his client's five-month sentence for the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner belonging to a historically Black church in the nation's capital.
But WUSA 9 reporter Eric Flack reported on Monday night that Tarrio reported to jail to serve his 155-day sentence anyway.
The incident, which Tarrio pleaded guilty to along with other charges, occurred in December before the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
Tarrio's attorney Lucas I. Danise said in the new filing that the sentencing judge in the case, Harold Cushenberry Jr., should be removed due to bias.
"My oldest daughter was actually baptized at that church, and I haven't really had any affiliation with the church," the judge said at Tarrio's plea hearing in July. "She's almost 40 now, and we attended with some regularity when she was young."
Cushenberry offered to recuse himself then, but Tarrio said, "that's not necessary."
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