Ryan J. Reilly is a justice reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — A man known for publicly harassing police officers who testified in Jan. 6 cases has been arrested over his own involvement with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tommy Tatum, who has also provided trial testimony on behalf of a Jan. 6 defendant, was arrested in Mississippi on Wednesday, according to court records.
During an interview with NBC News in 2022, Tatum said that he yelled that because law enforcement officers 'were spraying us with that deadly gas, and in my mind, I’m thinking if they take their helmets off maybe they’ll stop spraying.
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