Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys group, was released Friday after serving just over four months in jail for burning a Black Lives Matter banner stolen from a historic black church in Washington late in 2020.

Tarrio, wearing jeans and a black t-shirt with a photo of Malcolm X brandishing a firearm along with the words, “@FREETHEPROUDBOYS … BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.”, was spotted greeting and hugging his fiancée as he left Washington, DC’s Central Detention Facility.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/14/proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-released-from-jail-after-burning-blm-banner/

White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed Friday that President Biden didn’t intend to offend senators by likening them to George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis — but simply meant to compare their actions to those of the infamous white supremacists.

Psaki was pressed at her regular briefing about Biden’s fiery rhetoric at a Tuesday speech in Atlanta, which unsuccessfully sought to convince Democratic senators to set aside the 60-vote legislative filibuster and pass election reforms with a bare majority.

“He is talking about Republicans that don’t agree with voting rights [bills] — he’s describing them as George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis,” said Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/14/joe-biden-didnt-mean-to-offend-senators-by-likening-them-to-racists/

Students across the U.S. are planning walkouts to protest in-person learning amid a national spike in COVID-19 omicron cases.

More than 4,100 schools nationwide were closed as of Tuesday — a slight reduction from the more than 5,400 schools closed last week following winter break, according to community event website Burbio, which tracks school closures in more than 5,000 U.S. school districts. The closures came largely due to increasing COVID-19 cases and related staffing shortages.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/student-walkouts-in-person-classes-covid

The top Baltimore prosecutor indicted this week on federal perjury charges modeled herself on Vice President Kamala Harris, who in turn supported her protégé, saying she “cannot fail.”

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, 41, previously called Harris her “inspiration” and “role model” as a progressive prosecutor, proudly posting a photo of them smiling together on her Instagram.

“There would be no Marilyn Mosby without Kamala Harris,” the scandal-scarred prosecutor told The Baltimore Sun in November 2020 after her idol’s historic posting as VP-elect.

“She’s a bold, brilliant, beautiful black woman,” Mosby gushed, saying Harris “inspired” her to run as her city’s top prosecutor, a position that is up for re-election later this year.

Mosby said she used Harris’ own work as a California attorney general as a model for her progressive reforms, which already made her a divisive figure ahead of her federal grand jury indictment Thursday on charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications.

The respect was not one-sided, and Harris had campaigned in support of the rising Democrat figure, helping Mosby keep her $248,000-a-year job, according to Fox News.

“When we march and we shout about what we need to do to reform the criminal justice system, we better understand that we gotta march and shout with our paychecks,” the then-Sen. Harris reportedly said during a fundraiser in Los Angeles in 2017..

https://nypost.com/2022/01/14/prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-called-kamala-harris-her-role-model/

The Indiana bill that sparked national outrage will not move forward, Senate leadership confirmed on Friday.

"Members of the Senate continued to work on Senate Bill 167, but have determined there is no path forward for it and it will not be considered," Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville, said in a statement.

Less clear is the fate of a similar bill moving through the Indiana House. That bill was passed out of committee, 8-5, and heads to the full House floor next. Should it pass the House, it will be sent to the Senate.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2022/01/14/indiana-education-bill-167-nazi-senate-house-state-legislation-2022/6530374001/