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the most compelling evidence are the videos showing police gesturing people to come forward, or opening a door to allow people in. quite bizarre and inexplicable.

another oddity. John Sullivan, who just happened to be next to Ashli Babbitt when she was shot, and who ended up on Anderson Cooper/CNN, along with his documentary-making sidekick, Jade Sacker. He also provided WaPo with his video, & appeared on Fox.

VIDEO: 1m36s: 6 Jan: KSL TV: Utah Activist Inside U.S. Capitol Says Woman Killed Was First To Attempt Entrance In House Chamber
BY AMY DONALDSON, DESERET NEWS & BRITTANY GLAS, KSL TV
Sullivan, who is the founder of Insurgence USA, a social justice group that calls itself anti-fascist and protests police brutality, was detained by Washington police for about an hour and a half Thursday night, a day after he talked to local and national media about what he witnessed Wednesday.
He was handcuffed the entire time, and said police questioned him about being inside the Capitol and witnessing the shooting death of one of the protesters. He was not arrested...

But some of the 40-minute video he posted to his social media sites contradicts his assertion that he and another woman (JADE SACKER) were “only filming” the actions and not participating as he can be heard in the video encouraging people to join them as they push their way through police barricades...

Just after people broke into the building, Sullivan — wearing a gas mask and wielding an iPhone on a stabilizing stick — and a woman who said Wednesday that she was making a documentary on Sullivan, are on the first porch area outside the entrance looking back over the throngs of people around the Capitol. They can be heard encouraging people to climb the wall, saying, “Come on. Let’s go!”...

He can be heard saying, “We’re all part of this (expletive) history” as they enter the rotunda around 15 minutes in, and he says to his companion, “2021! (expletive) This is insanity. I am shook. What is this? What is this painting, you know? King (expletive) bro (expletive)!”...

That was not an impromptu act, Sullivan said.
“As far as them storming the Capitol, I knew that was going to happen,” he said. “I’m on chats that are underground that are sending out flyers that are just like, ‘Storm all Capitols on the 6th.’ It wasn’t anything that was secret. It was something that was out there … and they did it.”...

Throughout the video Sullivan can be heard telling police that they shouldn’t try to stop them from going different places because he doesn’t want them to get hurt. He appears to take his gas mask off at one point, but he is not shown in his own video except for a few seconds of an 18-minute video that has now been removed from his social media accounts...

When he was asked if he was a member of antifa, as he has used the hashtag in his social media posts, Sullivan said he understands where there could be confusion.
“If people are saying I’m antifa, as far as a terrorist organization, I’m not,” he said. “Am I anti-fascist? We all are anti-fascist. And that’s what we should all strive for being. I have my own organization, Insurgence USA, and that’s what it is for. That’s really what it is.”...
https://ksltv.com/452545/utahn-behind-social-justice-group-at-washington-march

Jayden X seems to be one of Sullivan’s Twitter handles:

Tweet: John Sullivan Retweeted Jayden X
Trump Supporters Breach the Wall of police and storm the front steps of the #usacapitol #DCProtests #DC
VIDEO 2m20s
8 Jan 2020
https://twitter.com/thejaydenxander/status/1347582569240555521

Tweet: Charlie Kirk
BLM inc. (JOHN SULLIVAN) threatening to “rip the president out of the White House”
They say they won’t wait until the next election.
They’re openly calling for a revolution.
This is domestic terrorism on full display, out in the open. They don’t even try to hide it.
VIDEO 1m18s
29 Aug 2020
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1299533616070815745

23 Sept: PT News Network: From Olympic hopeful and successful freight broker to left-wing extremist: John Sullivan’s story
By Stephen Oatley
Unlike most social justice protest organizers, let alone radical anti-police extremists we typically see taking leadership roles in protests, Sullivan grew up part of a wealthy family in northern Virginia. Sullivan and his brothers were all nationally ranked inline speed skaters and competed in competitions throughout the United States and international competitions in Spain, France, and Italy...

In a recent online video at a Los Angeles protest, Sullivan tells a woman that he currently works in cybersecurity. PT News Network reached out to Proofpoint, a cybersecurity firm listed on Sullivan’s LinkedIn profile as his current employer. In an email, a Proofpoint spokesperson commented they would not comment on the status of employees...
https://www.ptnewsnetwork.com/from-olympic-hopeful-and-successful-freight-broker-to-left-wing-extremist-john-sullivans-story/

About: Jade Sacker
I am a documentary photographer currently based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, having graduated from the International Center of Photography last Spring.
I come from a Native American family on my mom’s side, now culturally displaced from their land. My father’s family descends from Russia, where they fled from the pogroms at the outset of the 20th Century..
My projects are intended to advocate for a more just and tolerant world.
Client List:
Foreign Policy, NBC, HuffPo, Buzzfeed etc
https://www.jadesacker.com/about

28 Dec: Foreign Policy: The Year in Review: Our Top Visual Stories of 2020
by Kelly Kimball
1. As America Shuts Its Doors, Afghan Refugees Are Stuck in Turkey
by Umar Farooq, photos by Oscar Durand, Jan 24

4. In Cambodia, a Spiritual Army Battles an Earthly Pandemic
by ***JADE SACKER, June 12
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/28/our-top-visual-stories-of-2020/