Hey there New Jersey! Here’s your audio update highlighting President Donald Trump’s explanation for the mystery drone’s over New Jersey, a restaurant catching heat over its “Proud Boys” burger and schools cracking down on cell phones. Plus, we’ll tell you about a beloved Jersey Shore aquarium’s plans to reopen.
A Toms River restaurant under fire for dedicating a weekly burger special to the Proud Boys extremist group previously sold at least two other sandwiches themed around right-leaning politics. The Proud Boys Burger plunged Aqua Blu Kitchen & Cocktails into controversy last week when a screenshot of its printed menu was posted on social media by a customer.
The Proud Boys Burger included “white American cheese, onion rings, layers of truth, resilience pickles, freedom fries, cancel culture coleslaw, and liberty sauce.”
The former “Chairman” of the Proud Boys struck a cautious and less rambunctious tone than in the past in his first major interview since his release.
Aqua Blu Kitchen & Cocktails in Toms River has done a themed burger night every week for the past eight years. They've never had a backlash until now, the owner said.
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On his first day back in office, the president pardoned or commuted the sentences of those convicted over their roles in the January 6, 2021, riot.
Enrique Tarrio, the now-former leader of the neo-fascist Proud Boys gang convicted on treason-related charges after fuelling a mob on January 6, is set to be released from federal prison following Donald Trump ’s expected clemency order.
The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
We need to find and put them behind bars for what they did. They need to pay for what they did,’ Enrique Tarrio exclaimed on Tuesday night, referencing those who investigated the January 6 Capitol attack.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio said at a Friday news conference in Florida that he did "nothing wrong" around the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol.