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Additional coverage inciudes the (1/5, 16.52M}. Proud Boys Leader Tarrio Barred From BC. The AP (4/5, Balsamo, Long} reports, “A iudge has banned the ieader of the Proud Boys, a farsight exiremist group, from the nation’ S$ capita: after ne was accused of vandalizing a Slack Lives Matier banner af 2 historic Black church and found with high-capacity firearm magazines when he was arrested.” Enrique Tarrio is barred “from entering the District of Columbia, with very limifed exceptions to meet with his alforney or appear in cour.” He was arresied in Washington a the day before as he was arving ahead of protests. He is “accused of burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtown Washington last month.” Police say he “posted a confession on the right: owing site Parier that he had set fire to the sign.” sf (1/5, 10.52M} reports that in charging Tarrio “police refed on his statement fo the news media and Vi ideos that show him crouched with others near the banner as it was being set on fire.” The Past adds, “The FBI's Washington Field Offce enhanced some of the videos fc obiain a clearer look.” District police “said they also charged Tarrio with two felony counts of possessing high-capacity ammunition feeding devices, which is a legal term for a magazine that allows guns to hold additonal bullets.” Additional coverage includes \V EN Far-Righi Forums Urge Violence During Protests, The ¥ ‘ast (8, Harwell, 10.52Mé)} reporis, “Far-right online forums are sesthing with references io potential viclence and urging supporters of President Trump fo bring guns to Wednesday's protests in Washington.” Trump’s iweet promoting his baseless electoral fraud claims and promoting the January 6 protest “has become a central railying cry,” and “taik of guns and potential violence is nfe on the encrysted messaging app Telegram, the conservative sociai media site Parier and on thedonaid.win, an online forum that previously operaiec on Reddit before the company Danned it in June after years of racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism and calls for violence.” Pentagon Seeks fo Avoid Political Entanglements. The \ ¢ (4/5, Ryan, 10.82M) reports, “Pentagon leaders are bracing for any renewed oresideniia! attempts fo employ the multary for poitical ends.” President Trump's effort “to use expansive military force to put down wicespread protests over police violence against Black citizens” in June “served as a wake-up calito many top officials at the Pentagon and in Congress about Trump's willingness to reach for the military fo advance his personal and political interests.” As part of the careful posture and “the Pentagon's weriness in the final days of Trump's presidency, it emphasized that National Guard ursts deployed al OC Mayor Muriel Bowser's request “wouldn't carry firearms, use armored vehicles or helicopters, or receive backup from units in other states.” David Ignatius, in a column in the ¥ (4/5, 10.52Mi}, writes that “senior government officials appear confident thai the chaotic situation can be handied by the D.C. police, federal law-enforcement agencies and the National Guard — without requiring any use of regular-duiy military oops.” Police officers, joined by the guare, will esiablish control points near the main march sites, Officials’ assessment is “based partly on experience,” but officials also anticipate that left-wing counterorctesiers wil mostly not attend, lessening “the likelihood of confrontations that could escalate into bioodshed and serious disorder.” While fhere are concerns that affer dark on Wednesday “small bands of Proud Boys and other extremists” may “go looking for froudle,” but “officials expect that the planned force wouid be adequate.” DC Mayor Urges Against Deployment Of “Unidentifiable Personnel.” The W : (1/5, Zantow, 626K} reports that in a letter to federai officiais, OC Mayor Muriel Sowser urged against deploying “un antifable personnel’ at pro- Trump rallies, writing, “Unidentifiable personne! — in many cases, armed — caused confusion among residents and visitors and coulis become a national security fireat with no way for {D.C. soice] and federal law enforcement to decipher armed SFOUPS: * x (4/5, Levy, Subscription Publication, 8.44M) and the members of Congress, acvised that, with “potential violence in Washington tied t protests,” they should “use underground funnels while faveling between chambers in the Capitol and to nearby office buildings during the day.” Kenosha DA Will Not Bring Charges In Police Shooting Of Jacob Blake. in the lead story, § Naws (1/45, lead story, 2:25, Hol, 6.17M} reported, “There’s breaking news fonight from Wisconsin, where a prosecutor has announced there will be no charges filed against Rusten Sheskey, “a white Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake “in the back as he isaned info a car last August.” Siake “was left par. alyzed after the shooting that was captured cn video and ied to angry protests and even deadly violence on the streets.” NBC's Gabe Guflerrez added thal Kenosha County Disiict Atfomey Michael Graveley “says Blake was armed with a knife, and the officer could nave successfully arqued self-defense.” Graveley said the officers were “called to the scene on a designated domestic abuse call’ with the xnowleage that there was an arrest warrant for Siake at the time. at (44, story 3, 2:00, Muir, 760M), Alex Perez reported that Xenosha is “bracing for more y's decision. 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