Tin foil hat-wearing Georgia Republican Assembly member arrested at anti-LGBTQ Pride protest

A right-wing activist from Georgia known for literally wearing tin-foil hats to public meetings was arrested along with three allies over the weekend for protesting against a local LGBTQ Pride event.

WRGA News reports that 41-year-old Angela Antonella Rubino, the vice chair of the Etowah chapter of the Georgia Republican Assembly, was arrested because she and three other protesters refused to obtain a permit before taking part in the demonstration against a Pride event in Rome, Georgia.

Rome Assistant Police Chief Debbie Burnett told reporters on Sunday that other anti-LGBTQ Pride activists were allowed to protest at the event after getting a proper permit to do so, but said Rubino and her comrades simply would not do so.

"We told them ‘we don’t care if you protest, just get a permit and do it the right way,'" she explained.

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WRGA notes Rubino earlier this year "wore a tin foil hat to... [a] county commission meeting where she spoke out about the earlier arrest of Mark Kenneth Swanson on a misdemeanor charge of disrupting a public meeting." She is also known for making "frequent appearances at city and county government meetings, often questioning election integrity and the boards’ adherence to the U.S. Constitution."

In addition to Rubino, Rome Police also arrested 39-year-old Bradley Steven Barnes, 37-year-old Melissa Renee Smith, and 37-year-old William David Smith and charged them for violating the local assembly permit ordinance.

Georgia Republican Assembly is a right-wing splinter group that calls itself "the conscience of the Republican Party" and has a history of feuding with establishment figures like Gov. Brian Kemp.