Judges often consider a defendant’s past criminal history during sentencing.
“Tarrio was openly encouraging criminal behavior and violence on social media” in the run-up to January 6, prosecutors wrote, pointing out that some of his followers made good on the threats. (Tarrio has not been charged with any crimes in connection with the Capitol insurrection, though a few dozen people with ties to his group have been charged with conspiracy and other felonies.) The Justice Department also urged the judge to send Tarrio to jail because it said he needed to be punished for threatening violence on January 6 and urging his followers to break the law. He claimed that his group tore down and burned the Black Lives Matter banner because it is a “Marxist movement,” something the church denies. Throughout the case, Tarrio has vehemently denied this was a hate crime against Black people.
“Try, if you can, to imagine the stress, fear, anxiety, frustration, anger and terror this must create for them.”Īs part of Tarrio’s punishment, prosecutors also said in court filings that they want him to pay nearly $5,400 in restitution to cover the cost of “private security” that the church needed to hire after the incident. “Imagine the images conjured up in the minds of Asbury congregants as a result of these white men burning the BLM banner: visions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, cross burnings, and the post-Civil War Jim Crow south,” Mills wrote to the judge in the four-page letter. Mills, the senior pastor at Asbury United Methodist. Prosecutors quoted a letter from the Rev. In new court filings, federal prosecutors described the pain felt by the historically Black church’s congregation after their Black Lives Matter banner was burned on their own lawn. The case is in DC Superior Court, which is essentially DC’s local court, and his sentence will be decided by Judge Harold Cushenberry Jr. Tarrio’s sentencing is scheduled for Monday.
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