John Earle Sullivan recorded himself inciting violence and breaking a window before filming the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt outside the House Chamber on Jan. 6.
John Earle Sullivan speaks to his online followers in December 2020, shortly before he traveled to Washington for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. A Utah man who recorded himself inciting violence and breaking a window before filming the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt outside the House chamber during therioting and obstructing Congress’s certification of the 2020 election resultswith anarchist views who brought a tactical vest, a gas mask, a megaphone and a knife to the riot.
Since his conviction, Sullivan has been held in protective custody in virtual isolation at the D.C. jail, where authorities deemed that he held opposing political views and that housing him with other Jan. 6 defendants would be a “threat to his physical safety,” his lawyer said. Kiersh asked U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth for a 30-month sentence.
After he organized a July 2020 protest in Provo, Utah, that led to a motorist being shot, he was targeted by conservatives who believed he was a Black Lives Matter activist, he said. Black Lives Matter activists in Utah said Sullivan was not part of their group and urged protesters to avoid him as a troublemaker and riot chaser.
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