John Earle Sullivan, at 27-year-old was seen continuously spurring on violence on the Jan. 6 march on the Capitol by pushing the crowd forward. He was just feet away from veteran Ashli Babbitt when she was shot dead by a Capitol Police officer outside the House chamber, court records show. The man even sold a video he captured of the incident for $90,000.
Sullivan carried a knife into the Capitol and threatened to use it, broke a window, and ordered officers to leave their posts where he would soon film Babbitt getting shot.
However, unlike some 80 other individuals who have been imprisoned for up to 300 days for storming the Capitol, Sullivan has been allowed to go home to Utah while awaiting a trial date on eight criminal counts.
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At the Capitol riot, Sullivan was accused of multiple confrontations with officers and making “consistently gleeful exhortations about burning and breaking things throughout the building and its grounds,” according to a court brief filed Feb. 4, 2021.
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His criminal complaint is filled with expletive-laden quotes from the 50-minute video he shot and later sold to media outlets for $90,000. Among his comments: “There are so many people. Let’s go. This s*** is ours! F*** yeah,” and “That’s what I’m sayin', break that s***” when someone bangs on a door. At least twice, he threatened to burn down the building, stating, “We gotta get this s*** burned,” and “Let’s burn this s*** down!”
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told the Washington Examiner that "he was head of a group Insurgence USA, which sounds like Antifa and Black Lives Matter,”. “John Sullivan is a professional rioter, and he is actually being treated really well in the two-tiered justice system in America. Democrats are not going to punish their own, which is why he is walking around free.”
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Greene recently toured the Washington, D.C., jail, referred to by prisoners there as the “D.C. Gulag.” She alleged that Jan. 6 prisoners are being denied medical care, visitors, religious freedom, and basic grooming standards such as haircuts. Greene and other Republican House members co-authored a letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser demanding the firing of the jail’s assistant warden over the inhumane treatment of prisoners.
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Criminal charges have been filed in Utah against Sullivan for his role in an anti-police protest on June 29, 2020, that resulted in someone getting shot, according to court documents.
“Vehicles were damaged by protesters as well as by John Sullivan,” the Deseret News said, quoting a police affidavit. “John Sullivan is heard and seen promoting protesters to block roadways, keeping motorists from traveling lawfully and freely.”
Sullivan also allegedly threatened to beat a woman in a car, kicked her door, and then was seen associating with the alleged shooter, the newspaper said.
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