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.

“You’re gonna die tonight!” he shouted at police after striking an officer’s riot shield.

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    8 months ago

    “I tell you with confidence: I have changed,”

    I tell you with confidence: he’s fucking lying

    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Yeah and it doesn’t fucking matter even if he isn’t lying. You’re going to prison for what you did then, not who you are now, asshole.