Five Years For Rioter Who Beat Cop With Metal Crutch

May 3, 2024 Crime, Trump cultists

The Associated Press reports:

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.

From the Justice Department:



Whitton, 33, of Locust Grove, Georgia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras to 57 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. Whitton pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon on Sept. 13, 2022.

According to court documents, on Jan. 6, 2021, many of the most violent confrontations that day occurred near an entrance to the Capitol building in the area known as the Lower West Terrace.

The entrance usually consists of a flight of stairs leading to a doorway; however, on January 6th, the construction of the Inaugural Stage converted the stairway into a 10-foot-wide, slightly sloped, short Tunnel approximately 15 feet long.

Here, law enforcement officers struggled for hours with a mob of violent rioters to prevent the mod from advancing further into the Capitol building.

At approximately 4:27 p.m., police officers had been defending the Tunnel for nearly two hours, advancing and retreating as they struggled against a crowd of rioters. As some rioters exited the Tunnel and made their way down a set of steps, Whitton worked his way through (and against) the crowd to get closer to the police line.

As Whitton approached the police line, he pulled a metal crutch from the crowd, raised it overhead, and thrust it repeatedly at police, striking law enforcement officers.

While Whiton was attacking the line of officers with the crutch, another rioter – co-defendant Justin Jersey – knocked an officer to the ground. Still wielding the crutch, Whitton climbed over a fence at the top of the stairs.

As Whitton approached the police line, an officer was able to gain control of the crutch; however, Whitton was undeterred. He continued to fight the officers, grabbing at them with his hands and kicking at an officer lying on the ground.

Whitton then grabbed an officer’s baton and, in his own words, “fed him to the people” by dragging the officer head-first and face-down into the violent, angry mob of rioters, where the officer was beaten. The mob then proceeded to attack the downed officer with objects, including a police baton and flagpole.

In the days that followed the events of January 6, Whitton texted and posted on social media about his conduct at the Capitol that day, expressing pride in his participation in assaults and unconcern for his victims.

In one text exchange sent on the evening of January 6th, Whitton informed an associate that he “didn’t actually get in the building but everything else I was in the middle of.” He then sent images of his bloodied hands, stating, “This is from a bad cop. . . I fed him to the people. Idk his status. And I don’t care tbh.”

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