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On Monday, the Washington, D.C. Metro Transit Police Department arrested Bryan Betancur, a convicted (and then Trump-pardoned) January 6th rioter, charging him with assault and battery. Betancur live-streamed videos of himself creepily touching the hair of women passengers while riding the Metro. The videos went viral, leading to complaints and ultimately Betancur’s arrest.

Betancur is the latest January 6th recidivist. In October 2021, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in connection with his participation in the riot. According to CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), 33 individuals pardoned by President Donald Trump in connection with January 6th have been “rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes” since the attack on the U.S. Capitol. On the first day of his second administration, Trump pardoned or granted clemency to nearly 1,600 January 6th defendants and convicts. The president did not attempt to distinguish between violent and non-violent rioters. Nor did he distinguish between the rightwing extremists who planned the attack and the normal folk who were swept up in the chaos. All the Jan. 6ers received a pardon — including Betancur, a white supremacist associated with the far-right Proud Boys — as part of Trump’s obsessive desire to rewrite history and reward his most devout followers.

Betancur’s extremist beliefs and associations are well-attested in the court record, including in a sworn FBI affidavit. An FBI agent described Betancur as “a self-professed white supremacist who has made statements to law enforcement officers that he is a member of several white supremacy organizations.” Betancur “has voiced homicidal ideations, made comments about conducting a school shooting, and has researched mass shootings,” the FBI agent stated.

Betancur also “voiced support for James Fields, the individual convicted [of] killing an individual with his car during protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.” Fields, a neo-Nazi, pleaded guilty to using his car to run over and kill a counter-protester, Heather Heyer, during the white supremacist “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.

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