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DC officer leaked information to Proud Boys leader, indictment alleges

Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys in Portland, Oregon, in September 2020.
Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys in Portland, Oregon, in September 2020. Photograph: Allison Dinner/AP

A Washington DC police officer was arrested on Friday on charges that he lied about leaking confidential information to Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and obstructed an investigation after group members destroyed a Black Lives Matter banner in the nation’s capital.

An indictment alleges that Metropolitan police department lieutenant Shane Lamond, 47, of Stafford, Virginia, warned Tarrio, then national chairman of the far-right group, that law enforcement had an arrest warrant for him related to the banner’s destruction.

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