Police arrested two protesters for packing heat to at a Confederate Memorial Day rally Monday, including a local Black Lives Matter activist known for instigating altercations at a Donald Trump rally last fall.

Mercutio Terrell Southall, an activist with the Birmingham, Alabama chapter of Black Lives Matter (pictured at a previous protest), was arrested along with John Patrick Redmond, of Enterprise, for misdemeanor charges of possession of firearms at a public demonstration Monday, AL.com reports.

The arrests occurred at the city’s annual Confederate Memorial Day celebration, an official holiday in several southern states aimed at honoring the region’s Confederate heritage.

The Birmingham festivities were the biggest in the state, according to the news site.

Southall is a controversial figure with a penchant for dramatic, violent encounters with police and other people he doesn’t agree with. He was arrested in Birmingham in November after he marched around a Donald Trump rally wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt and prompted a physical altercation with Trump supporters.

Before that, in October, he marched with his buddies through Birmingham neighborhoods toting assault rifles after a 28-year-old black man was killed by police during a traffic stop for refusing to put down his gun, according to AL.com.

“We’re done with protests,” Southall told the news site in October. “This is about empowering the people.”

Southall, a former football player turned police academy dropout, is an intimidating man at 6-feet tall and 260 pounds, and he attracts a lot of attention with his theatrics during arrests that often take several police officers to take him down.

He was arrested in a two-hour standoff with police in July 2014 for carrying around a rifle and a constitution “teaching people about the law.” In December 2014, Southall was arrested again during a Black Lives Matter protest at a Homewood Walmart, then again in April 2015 as he protested in front of police headquarters.

He was taken in again in August 2015 after a protest and subsequent scuffle with police in front of Homewood City jail, AL.com reports.

Southall told the news site he’s been Tased by police about 30 times, and many of his arrests have been recorded for maximum publicity.

Southall previously said he’s inspired by revolutionary Marxist Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who was known by many as a ruthless mass murderer.

“Che Guevara said a true cause of any revolutionary is love. It’s because I care so much. I can’t see suffering and not do anything about it,” Southall told the news site. “So when you see me out there and I’m angry, or you feel like I’m confrontational, that’s for my people because I see the injustices. I feel their pain. I know their pain. I’ve experienced their pain. I love them, even the ones that talk about me, that say I’m a troublemaker, that say that they wish somebody would hurry up and kill me.”