John Sullivan is the founder of the civil rights group Insurgence USA and does not align politically with President Donald Trump, but has been in D.C. this week for several planned protests including Wednesday’s rally at the Capitol...
A police affidavit confirmed Sullivan is part of the Insurgence USA group which planned to "kick these fascists out of DC" on January 6th.
-Jim Spiewak
The first time racial justice activists in Utah heard of Sullivan, he was leading marches last year through the streets of Provo — the home city of Brigham Young University — which, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, has a Black population of less than 1 percent.
He organized rallies under a group he formed and dubbed Insurgence USA, which activists said Sullivan used to fundraise and solicit donations from individuals who felt compelled to support racial justice movements in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
-Tom Jackman, Marissa J. Lang and Jon Swaine
You may recall that John Sullivan was one of the people who went into the Capitol and encouraged others to do so. He also filmed the killing of Ashli Babbitt by Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd...
But Sullivan also had been an organizer of BLM protests and run a website called Insurgence USA that sold Antifa black bloc gear.
-Nick Arama
Liberal, Incitement, Violence, Narrative, Oops, Protest
A left-wing activist who told CNN he went inside the Capitol Building during last Wednesday's siege merely to document the chaos has now been arrested by police.
According to the Department of Justice, John Earle Sullivan, 26, was not simply a passive observer inside the Capitol, after video emerged purportedly showing him encouraging the rioters...
According to a release by the DOJ, Sullivan, 'wearing a ballistics vest and gas mask, entered the U.S. Capitol through a window that had been broken out, pushing past U.S. Capitol Police once inside'.
He filmed multiple videos of the event, before posting them to YouTube under his username 'Jayden X'. In one of the clips, he is seemingly heard encouraging other rioters as they enter the building.
John Earle Sullivan's
"Anti-Fascist" Insurgence USA Group
January 6 2021 Left-Wing Insurrectionist
According to court documents, John Sullivan faces charges of entering a restricted building without lawful authority, one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and one count of interfering with law enforcement.
In video he shot during the insurrection, John Sullivan said he was there as a journalist. But James Sullivan said that's not true.
"He is not a reporter anyway," James Sullivan said. "He started Insurgence TV and he just started going into like full radicalization, preaching and hosting rallies."
Liberal, Violence, Narrative, Oops, Protest
A Utah man previously arrested in connection to a police brutality protest in Provo has now been jailed for his role in the Capitol riots.
According to an arrest affidavit for John Earle Sullivan, the Utah resident is the founder of Insurgence USA, self-described as being a coalition to "unite all people under one banner to fight for liberation and freedom for all people."...
However, Sullivan also captured himself on video which he provided to the FBI making statements indicating support of the rioters. According to the affidavit, after breaking through barricades outside of the Capitol building, he can be heard stating “We accomplished this s***. We did this together. F**k yeah! We are all a part of this history,” and “Let’s burn this s**t down.”
Sullivan entered the building through a broken window, allegedly stating inside "we gotta get this "s**t burned" and "it's our house mother*******."
Liberal, Incitement, Violence, Narrative, Oops, Protest
The Department of Justice (DOJ) seized $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of Ashli Babbitt being shot during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, according to court filings filed by federal prosecutors.
John Earle Sullivan, a political activist who reportedly attended Black Lives Matter protests last year and who allegedly agitated rioters inside the Capitol, was also charged with new weapons charges, according to the documents unsealed last week.
According to the court documents, Sullivan portrayed himself as an independent journalist who was reporting on the chaos, but he actually encouraged other participants to “burn” the building and engage in violence.
Sullivan is accused of having a conversation with others who breached the building and allegedly told them: “We gotta get this [expletive] burned,” according to court documents in his case.
"Why does this purported anti-fascism on the part of progressives so closely resemble the fascism that it claims to be opposing?" -Dinesh D'Souza