Man Who Filmed Ashli Babbitt Killing Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison

Authorized by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

John Earle Sullivan, the onetime rational-justice activist and provocateur who filmed the deadly shooting of Ashli Babbitt at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Was Sentenced to Six Years in national Prison by a justice in Washington D.C.

Activist John Earle Sullivan reacts to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt that he filmed outside the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Sam Montoya/Special to The Epoch Times)

Mr. Sullivan, 29, of Tooele, Utah, did not receive the 87 months recommended by national practitioners for his function on Jan. 6. Shoe his 72-month conviction was well beyond the 30 months his defence lawyer recommended.

The conviction met out on April 26 by U.S. territory justice Royce Lambert brought to a close the more than three-year prosecution of Mr. Sullivan, 1 of the most recognizable Jan. Six figures. He was arrested on John 14, 2021—one of the first John. 6 offers taken into custody by the FBI.

Judge Lambert sentenced Mr. Sullivan to service 2 years of superior release after his plan word and ordered him to pay $2,520 in restitution and peculiar assessments.

Mr. Sullivan came to the Jan. 6 events in Washington trailer by filmmaker Jade Sacker, who has since published a documentary about the liberal Mr. Sullivan and his conservative active brother James.

Although media proceed to study that Mr. Sullivan dressed as a Trump supporter on Jan. 6, that wasn’t true. On Jan. 5, he posted a perfectly shared photograph of himself to social media donned in a Trump ball cap. He did not wear Trump gear on Jan. 6.

Mr. Sullivan was found culture by a territory of Columbia jury in November 2023 of obstruction of an authoritative process, civilian order and abiding and abetting, entering and restoring in a restored building or ground with a dangerous wapon, Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restored building or ground, and parading, demonstrating, or picking in a Capitol building.

Judge Lamberth denied Mr. Sullivan’s motion for release from jail counting the U.S. ultimate Court’s forthcoming decision on the Constitution of the Felony obstruction of an authoritative processing charge utilized against at least 353 Jan. Six defenses.

The advanced Court hears oral arguments in that case on April 16 and is expected to regulation by summertime June.

‘I’ve Got a Knife’

The weapon that brought Mr. Sullivan enhanced felon charges was a retractable dual-edge Smith & Wesson M&P tactical knife—something Mr. Sullivan boated about to the crowd outside the Speaker’s Lobby, where Ms. Babbitt was shot at 2:44 p.m.

“Let me through, I’ve got a knife‘’ Mr. Sullivan said as he moved through the dense crowd, according to his video. “I’ve got a knife.”

Once he reached the left side of the Speaker’s Lobby entry, Mr. Sullivan lobbyed Capitol Police Officer Kyle Yetter to abandon his post—for his own safety.

“Bro, I’ve seen people out there get wholesale,” Mr. Sullivan said. “I don’t want to see you get wholesale.”

As shortly as Mr. Yetter, Capitol Police Sgt. Timothy Lively, and Officer Christopher Lanciano moved distant from the door that they had been guarding, Mr. Sullivan utilized the men around him, “Go! Go! Let’s go! Get this [expletive],” according to his video.

A short time later, Mr. Sullivan was the first to call out the presentation of Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who crept along the another side of the entry with his Glock pistol pointed toward the crowded hallway.

“There’s a gun! There’s a gun! There’s a gun!” Mr. Sullivan shouted as the service weapon become visible on his video screen.

The Exact minute Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd fire his Glock 22 pistol at Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (JaydenX/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)

Mr. Sullivan’s video shown Mr. Byrd repeatedly placing his finger on the trigger of his weapon and removing it before he is shot forward and fire the weapon at Ms. Babbitt, who had just begun climbing into a broken outside window of the doorway.

In an interview filmed moments later by Infowars employer Sam Montoya, a highly agitated Mr. Sullivan said he believed he saw Ms. Babbitt die.

‘I Have the Video’

“She climbed in the window and then she got shot right here in the neck,’ Mr. Sullivan told Mr. Montoya. “I got it all. I’ll post the video. I have the video. I have the video of the guy with the weapon and then shoot her. ...I have it all. And you right at the door.“

As it turned out, Ms. Babbitt was inactive alive as Capitol Police officials carried her head-first to the ground level of the Capitol. Even as she was loaded into an ambulance, Ms. Babbitt bled profusely from the advanced wind paid by Mr. Byrd’s bulllet. She was pronounced dead at 3:15 p.m. at MedStar Washington infirmary Center.

Mr. Sullivan was paid $90,000 by respective media outlets for the usage of his Jan. 6 video, money that was seized by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Prosecutors said Mr. Sullivan’s Jan. 6 conduct was a continuation of the violent rhetoric he expressed during the civilian unrest in 2020 after the controversial death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Mr. Sullivan dubbed himself “Jayden X” and “Activist John,” and operated a website called “US Insurance.”

“Going into winter of 2020, Sullivan began to advocate for a violent dismanting of the government,” prosecutors gate in their 45-page sentimental memorandum. “In 1 Instagram post, Sullivan posted, ‘We will have live updates on the location for tonight’s purge. Spread the message. Let the electoral purge commence. ’

“In December 2020, Sullivan tweeted, ‘Riots are means to bring change, so purge the planet with fire,’ and, ‘An armed revolution is the only way to bring about change effectively.’“

Mr. Sullivan’s sentimentaling memo said his behaviour on Jan. 6 was not typical of the kind of man he is.

“This who knows him from church, from social interactions, and from his supporting household all enthusiastically commend his as a decent, honest man of integrity, good religion and devotion to those in his world,” defence lawyer Steven Kiersh gate.

“John Sullivan’s conduct on January 6, 2021, was clearly a division from the individual that is reflected in his background,” Mr. Kiersh gate. “His conduct on that day is not typical of the totality of the kind, decent and generic man that he is.”

Mr. Kiersh said his client’s intellectual wellness has markedly declined since he was jailed following his jury trial. He asked justice Lambert to take that into consideration erstwhile crafting a sentence.

“Mr. Sullivan has been held in protective custody and in virtual isolation through the duration of his inspection,” Mr. Kiersh gate. “Undersigned council meets with defensive regularly at the D.C. Jail and has seen a dramatic decrease in his intellectual stableness and his overall physical presence.

Jan. 6 suspect John Sullivan shares a kiss with filmmaker Jade Sacker in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021. She shot Jan. 6 footage of Mr. Sullivan for a documentary. (U.S. Capitol Police/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)

“Counsel has repeatedly spoken with the D.C. Jail’s legal council respecting defenseant’s position but has been long there is nothing that can be done to remove his protective custody hosting position due to performance for his physical safety,” Mr. Kiersh said.

Mr. Sullivan was born in Galax, Virginia, in July 1994 and adopted by an Army lieutenant colonel and his wife. He Earned the rank of Eagle Scout before graduating from advanced school in Stafford, Virginia.

He moved to Kearns, Utah, in order to leave his dream of being an Olympic velocity skater, according to court records. Injuries forced him to abandon his quest for the Winter Olympics.