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WASHINGTON (AP) A Georgia business owner who bragged that he fed a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection.
Jack Wade Whitton struck an officer with a metal crutch and dragged him head first and face down into the crowd on the Capitol's Lower West Terrace. Whitton later boasted in a text message that he fed him to the people.
Roughly 20 minutes later, Whitton tried to pull a second officer into the crowd, prosecutors say. He also kicked at, threatened and threw a construction pylon at officers trying to hold off the mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters.
Youre gonna die tonight! he shouted at police after striking an officer's riot shield.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-bragged-fed-officer-mob-163846410.html
Enjoy prison, scumbag.
Aristus
(66,553 posts)Man, these guys really are "Back The Blue", aren't they? Until they suddenly aren't anymore...
Arne
(2,176 posts)orangecrush
(19,687 posts)Adios, Mother Fucker
NBachers
(17,203 posts)byronius
(7,417 posts)IbogaProject
(2,872 posts)I hope he does 20 years postrelease supervision where he can just go back easier when he reoffends.