If there has been a silver lining in the January 6 insurrection, it would be this: Law enforcement officials finally appear to be taking far-right extremist criminal behavior seriously. That s become abundantly clear in the wave of arrests of multiple extremists in the weeks following, not all of whom are connected to the attack on the Capitol.
The past week has been especially eventful: A live-streaming white supremacist fond of threatening strangers online was arrested in Florida on a weapons charge. A member of the Proud Boys was arrested in Philadelphia for harassing a community organizer. And even more Capitol insurgents were placed under arrest, including a former State Department aide and Donald Trump appointee.
A 32-year-old man who the Anti-Defamation League describes as a "volatile white supremacist-accelerationist" was arrested Tuesday morning in south Florida for allegedly being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, authorities said.