Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, leader of the alt-right hate group Proud Boys, would like to speak to the manager.
Tarrio is currently serving a five months sentence in a Washington, D.C. jail for burning a Black Lives Matter flag stolen from a historic Black church. This week, he begged a judge to reduce his sentence to 90 days and allow him to finish it under house arrest because the facility where he’s being held is simply not up to his standards.
“I’ve been to jail before and what I’ve seen here, I’ve never seen anywhere else,” Tarrio told Judge Jonathan H. Pittman on Monday. “This place needs to be shut down immediately!”
Tarrio whined that, not only are the correctional officers mean to him, but his cell keeps getting flooded with dirty toilet water from a neighboring cell and it’s disgusting. Also, the halls smell like cigarette smoke and the food is just terrible.
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His lawyer, Lucas I. Dansie, said that Tarrio’s “meals are literally thrown in his cell, cold and frequently inedible.”
Tarrio said the conditions he’s had to endure are “insane,” calling the whole place a “gulag,” and that he fears for his life every single day.
“I’m deathly afraid that something is going to happen to me,” he said.
Attorneys for the D.C. Department of Corrections disputed most of Tarrio’s claims and said he hasn’t suffered any mistreatment. As for the flooding, they admitted there has been an issue with another prisoner regularly plugging up his toilet in protest and they’re dealing with it.
This isn’t the first time the D.C. facility, which is also currently housing several January 6 rioters, has been accused of unsanitary conditions and abusive practices.
In October, a U.S. Marshals Service inspection found water in certain areas “had been shut off for days” as punishment, creating an “overpowering” stench from “standing human sewage.” This resulted in the Justice Department transferring 400 federal prisoners to a different facility.
“They don’t move 400 prisoners for nothing,” Tarrio told the judge.
Proud Boys was first established in 2016 and has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It doesn’t allow trans men to be members and is known for opposing things like mask mandates and Black Lives Matter as well as protesting drag shows. Last year, thousands of LGBTQ people made #ProudBoys trend on Twitter by posting photos of proud gay couples to drown out content related to the group.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Max
what a /puhsi/
ptn2719
Aww, poor baby, you thought prison was going to be like spending an extended holiday at a Ritz Carlton? Grow up. It’s MEANT to be a punishment!
jcool
or maybe locked up at the trump hotel. when you act like a punk you will be treated like a punk.
Mister P
In most other countries, insurrectionists have it far worse.
radiooutmike
Oh yes. They don’t remove “…over 400 prisoners for nothing.”
They do if one white dude complains. Not the generations of black and brown men who have suffered through these condition for decades.
I feel like, anyone who complains (at least in this particular cohort) should get double or triple prison time added.
Kangol2
Part of alleged FBI informant Tarrio’s problem in this case is that though he runs with those right-wing extremist White men he is actually is a Black and brown one!
pattygale
My favorite part is that he fears for his life. Imagine any human being having to feel that way, said every black person in America. I’m an old white grandma, but I’ve lived long enough and known enough people to know that his sentence should be increased for being a scourge on humanity, not lowered because the food doesn’t meet his lofty standards.
barryaksarben
and many gay men fear for thier lives every day
Kangol2
The irony is he is a Black Latino man who ran with White supremacists. Oh well!
Bosch
“I’ve been to jail before” is a weird flex.
Harley
Boo hoo. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
MISTERJETT
so, who cares???????
Jaquelope
At least he’s getting food. What is he used to dining on? Champagne, caviar, Filet Mignon and Porterhouse steaks (with the appropriate wine, of course)?
missvamp
he deserves worse.
Fahd
He’s entitled to file his motion. I’m sure the judge will direct the appropriate prison authorities to look into the situation. Being in jail should be a deterrent, but conditions should be humane.
Still, I can not feel pity for him, especially when I think of what jail would be like under any government of which he might be a part.
greekboy
BOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!
wikidBSTN
Hey Proud Turd. Prison = bad. Deal with it.
woodroad34
Interesting that up ‘til now, he’s had a good enough life that he can recognize what a crappy existence some have to endure—I wonder if it’ll change anything in his life…probably not since his malignant attitude is what got him there in the first place.
Jon in Canada
So much for being hard as nails alpha males…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wimps
Karlis
Shoulda thought of that before you ripped down the flag, Bubba! Posing as a whiny little thing is not helping you at all. I trust that your fellow “proud boys” are not happy about such wimpiness.