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2021-05-23 Fifth Column

U.S. seizes $90,000 from man who sold footage of U.S. Capitol riot

[REUTERS] U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump

...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
, according to court filings.

Prosecutors also have filed additional criminal charges against the man, John Earle Sullivan, a self-described political activist who is accused of entering the Capitol building and participating in the riot, the filings unsealed on Thursday showed.

Sullivan now faces a total of eight criminal counts, including weapons charges, related to the riot. Sullivan's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Prosecutors have charged more than 440 people in connection with the attack in which Trump supporters stormed the Capitol after he gave a speech to them repeating his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud. The mob smashed windows, fought police and sent politicians into hiding. Five people died.

...but only one died of other than natural causes, and she was shot dead by a Capitol policeman...

Many participants, including Sullivan, posted their actions on social media.

According to the court filings, Sullivan portrayed himself as an independent journalist who was reporting on the chaos, but actually encouraged other participants to "burn" the building and engage in violence.

Sullivan recorded video of the confrontation between rioters and police just outside the U.S. House of Representatives chamber that included the shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt and, according to court filings, boasted to an unnamed witness that "my footage is worth like a million of dollars, millions of dollars."

Sullivan sold that footage to several news outlets for a total of $90,000, according to a seizure warrant. The news outlets were redacted from the warrant.

According to media reports, Sullivan participated in Black Lives Matter protests last year.

A Black Bloc agent provocateur? How unexpected.

Other Black Lives Matter activists in his home state have disavowed him.

Posted by Fred 2021-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 "...if you fail, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence."

Posted by magpie 2021-05-23 00:20|| 2021-05-23 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The "unnamed witness" was, I believe, affiliates with CNN.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-05-23 05:29|| 2021-05-23 05:29|| Front Page Top

#3
Why is it anytime a typical city Police Officer shoots an armed Thug, a Looter, an Arsonist or and attacking drug dealer/user. Then dozens of Camera seeking Political Officials run to a camera to vilify the officer and plastered his/her name immediately worldwide? Even down to home street addresses and etc..

But let one Nancy's Capitol Police officers kill someone, then Congress and the MSM is as tight lipped as Hillary at a Senate Investigation Hearing?

Well, actually CONGRESS planned it that way.
Interesting article by Forbes Mag. listing the exemptions Congress has in place for its Capitol Police to protect themselves from the Public and Media FOIA inquires.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-05-23 06:08|| 2021-05-23 06:08|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Members of the Praetorian Guard were afforded many privileges quite unknown to the standard rank and file.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-23 08:03|| 2021-05-23 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ yes, B., and it wasn't long before the Praetorians started selling their loyalty and actually appointed some of the later ~~"Presidents"~~ Emperors.

Posted by Mercutio 2021-05-23 08:40|| 2021-05-23 08:40|| Front Page Top

#6 fought police and sent politicians into hiding

Next time, play to win. No half measures. What the situation calls for is an All-American Spring.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-23 08:50|| 2021-05-23 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Sullivan has been known all along as an Antifa/BLM provocateur of the Jan 6 event. He was detained and released, appeared on the networks, and he was later arrested in Seattle. One hopes he is in solitary now, like many of the other demonstrators sadly still are. I’m betting he incited Ashlii to climb through that window as he filmed her.

He’s an accessory to her death.

Posted by KBK 2021-05-23 12:47|| 2021-05-23 12:47|| Front Page Top

#8 AFAIK he's still out n about.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-05-23 15:57|| 2021-05-23 15:57|| Front Page Top

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