Bomb threat sent to anti-Trump conference singles out officer who tangled with ex-Proud Boys leader

[highplainsdem]

Source: Guardian

Attendees of a center-right political conference in Washington DC were forced to evacuate on Sunday, after someone claiming to be Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys group who was convicted and then pardoned for his role in the January 6 insurrection, allegedly emailed in a bomb threat against the event. Tarrio denied any involvement in the incident.

Organizers of the Principles First summit, which is considered a center-right alternative to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), confirmed the bomb threat after they abruptly asked attendees to clear the room hosting the conference.

“We have received a credible bomb threat from an account claiming to be ‘Enrique T.’ ‘To honor the J6 hostages.’ Yesterday, the recently pardoned leader of the Proud Boys who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and the attack of January 6th came to the Summit and harassed the J6 police who were speaking,” organizers said in a social media post.

“Hotel security, private security, and MPD have made the decision to evacuate Summit floor so that the area can be secured,” the note added, referring to Washignton’s Metropolitan police department. “We intend to reconvene and continue with the Summit once the area has been secured.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/23/principles-first-enrique-tarrio-bomb-threat

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The article mentions Jim.Acosta's tweet.about this:

Link to tweet

The bomb threat:

[Irish_Dem]

1. We become more like Russia every day.

Dissenters will be killed.

[Chipper Chat]

2. I'm sure a House Committee will get right on this.

What sayeth Comer and Jordan?

[stillcool]

4. Why would they? I mean even if they

were real representatives.

[Chipper Chat]

5. If this had happened at Cpac we'd be under martial law.

[cstanleytech]

7. I'm willing to bet that's had many such threats over the years already.

One actually going off is what they would use to justify initiating Martial Law even if it didn't kill anyone.
Then you'd see mass arrests of people across the nation.

[sakabatou]

3. I'm sure Dump already has papers ready to pardon him or commute his sentence.

[Mopar151]

6. I f'n HATE these cowardly threateners!

With the passion that MAGA hates the "woke". Somehow, I think the Venn diagram has lots of overlap with threateners, groomers, history and science deniers, racists and fasacists.