January 15, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A leftist activist was arrested and charged for forcibly entering the Capitol building on Jan. 6 and, among other charges, “willfully and knowingly” engaging in “disorderly or disruptive conduct,” the Department of Justice said yesterday.
John Sullivan is the founder of Insurgence USA, a leftist activist group “started in 2020 in response to the George Floyd tragedy” that seeks to “end police brutality.” Sullivan claims to be a reporter, despite not having any press credentials, who entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6 to document the event with his camera. He released about an hour of mostly raw footage that captures events leading up to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. His own actions and comments captured in his raw footage, however, reveal not so much an impartial observer, but a protagonist who was urging the mob to engage in violent and destructive behavior.
Sullivan was taken into police custody in his hometown of Provo, Utah on Thursday.
He has been charged with the following:
Interference with a law enforcement officer who was “lawfully engaged in the lawful performance of his official duties incident to and during the commission of a civil disorder.” Knowingly entering a restricted building (Capitol
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