Kos: Rioter Texted Bloody Hand Photo: "This is from a bad cop, Yea I fed him to the people..."

[Botany]

Rioter Texted Bloody Hand Photo Captioned: "This is from a bad cop, Yea I fed him to the people..."


Prosecutors said the FBI received a tip identifying “Scallops” as Jack Wade Whitton from a confidential source on Jan. 17, and at some later an FBI task force officer interviewed the tipster, who said they knew Whitton from high school and had attended the same CrossFit gym as Whitton and his girlfriend. The confidential source provided the FBI with a copy of a text message that Whitton allegedly sent to a mutual acquaintance.

“This is from a bad cop,” the message said, showing an image of a bloody hand. “Yea I fed him to the people. Idk his status. And don’t care tbh.”

(snip)

“The defendant assaulted an officer with a weapon — a crutch — and while doing so, kicked another officer who had been forced to the ground by a separate rioter. The defendant then dragged the officer he assaulted with a crutch into the mob, pulling him by the head, in a prone position, down a flight of steps. The evidence shows that the defendant is a danger to the community,” prosecutors wrote.


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[Iggo]

1. Is that the guy who's complaining about not having done an "inner city" crime?

Hard to keep track.

[tblue37]

2. No. That would be the eye gouger: retired NYPD officer Tom Webster.

[Midnight Writer]

3. There is an old adage that someone who will attack a cop will attack anyone.

This man is a physical threat to anyone around him.

[Leghorn21]

4. "Scallops" got his name from the pattern on his backpack - he needs to ponder his actions that day

for at least the next 20 years (in prison, of course)

The article doesn’t say, but I’m pretty sure that’s Officer Michael Fanone he grabbed and started hauling down those cement steps

I really despise this little motherfucker

Better (not great) shot of scallop design:

[SergeStorms]

27. I'm sure his gf will wait for him...

to get out of prison. Girlfriends of reich-wing terrorists are like that. She must be a real keeper as well.
Donald Trump is responsible for every one of those shit goblins being there, and everything they did while they were there "following his orders".

[Maru Kitteh]

5. He's going to miss posting selfies in prison.

And he better be a very old man by the time he gets out. 80 years in prison out in 60 with good behavior seems appropriate. That would make him 90 at release.

[Botany]

10. From the link @ post # 6

7 counts including assault with a deadly or dangerous weapon. And the government has asked for
and I think has been granted a no bail order for "Scallops." I don't think he will be out in anything
less than 20 years. His best bet is to plead guilty to everything, admit his mistakes, and start serving
his time.

I wonder when he is doing his time it will come to him that his reason to be @ and
in the Capitol on 1/6/21 was all based onlies and racism?

[SergeStorms]

30. Face it.

He's already a racist or he'd have never listened to Drumpf in the first place. I imagine he's believed the reich-wing lies for quite some time. No one wakes up one morning and says to themself, "I think I'm going to become a violent racist, reich-wing terrorist today:"
I don't think he cares if he was being lied to or not. He wanted a chance to be a violent asshole, and he thought this was the perfect time to do it, because he never thought he'd get caught. And even if he was caught, Trump would have his back, right? Freaking idiots.

[Botany]

32. I think a lot of those violent assholes chose to listening to and read right ...

... wing racist nut ball extremest crap for years because it reinforces their prejudices and
warped thinking. To them having a Sean Hannity or some right wing "think tank" tell them
that they are right in their thinking is very comforting. I just lost one of my best friends in
the world to something called the Heterodox Academy which has been telling him that the
real victims in America are white males.

[FakeNoose]

6. The arresting document says he was arrested on April 1st

(link) https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20580244/jack-wade-whitton.pdf

It's a PDF of the FBI arrest warrant and other info.

[AZLD4Candidate]

7. When did Blue Lives Matter stop with Republicans?

[Cha]

15. When they were the guards to the Capitol

Building, the Domestic Terrorists wanted to storm, maim, & kill, to overturn the fair election to the Treasonous Psychopath.

[ShazzieB]

28. I like that name for Chump.

Treasonous Psychopath has a nice ring to it. TP for short, and the additional meaning (toilet paper) is a cute touch.

[Cha]

29. TP is exactly what he is.

[paleotn]

23. Never started.

To them, everything is code. Blue lives matter simply means shoot brown people at will. Respect or appreciation for cops never enters the equation, except, of course, those who kill brown people at will.

[SergeStorms]

31. Blue lives stopped mattering...

when those in blue tried to stop them from being racist, terrorist assholes. As long as those in blue directed their attention and anger toward minorities, everything was fine. Then it was, "hip, hip hooray for the boys in blue". The second those in blue turned their way, well..... they became "fair game". That's the way it works when you have no principles and self-control.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. I'm still not seeing the thread that connects the parts

They want Trump. They are angry at America, and law enforcement, because of no Trump? And they will attack law enforcement so they can have Trump without law and order? And they believe they are the patriots? What is their promised land? Marauding? Is it like a Viking berzerker pillaging? Their reality seems scrambled to me. It seems more like free-floating anger that got attached to something, that they really hadn't thought it out.

[AnnaLee]

11. I agree with this.

It seems more like free-floating anger that got attached to something, that they really hadn't thought it out.

[Biophilic]

17. That hit me also. It just seemed to do a good job of summing up the

behavior that otherwise doesn't seem to make any sense no matter how you look at it.

[halfulglas]

20. More like the hate and anger they bring multiplies exponentially instead of sum of its parts.

Like an explosion once Trump hit the match. It doesn't mean individually they aren't despicable human beings as shown by even the caught ones have at first said they were proud of what they've done and would do it again. (Now not so much.) People in large groups often do things they wouldn't do by themselves, especially if they can be relatively anonymous. Some of these guys were controlled and had definite objectives depending on the mob as cover, but some of them have had this hate and anger built up for years now and I think those that haven't been caught haven't learned their lesson because it felt good to them to have their hate fed and released.

[Scrivener7]

18. I think you're close with the Viking berzerker. I think they all see themselves as being the

heirs to some amorphous kingdom, but kinda like that. They get the image in their brains by watching "Vikings" on TV and reading the "Left Behind" books. They're all demented.

There's no thought other than, "I coulda been a contender, it is my BIRTHRIGHT to be a contender, but THEY won't let me." THEY are women and brown and black people.

I truly think it doesn't go much deeper than that.

[Botany]

33. "a Viking berzerker"

Now there is a phrase you don't hear enough.

[JudyM]

34. The thread that connects is that none of their beliefs are coherent, and they don't need to be

to cause poutrage. They latch on to whatever sound bite “cause” makes them feel justified in being pissed off and fight like child rebels. Like their right to own a gun, or immigrants are taking their jobs, or whatever.

[bucolic_frolic]

36. Do you think the lack of vicarious sporting events (football) during covid

made them more susceptible to their leader's encitement? In other words, what raging energy normally went into the emotional ups and downs of sports was now available and openly seeking an outlet.

[JudyM]

37. Likely!

And they had delusions of being their own team of heroes. Genuinely sick.

[Baked Potato]

9. T***p failed them. They really want to string him up, but

they are like his children and can’t bring themselves to kill Daddy.

[Cha]

12. Fucking MF Bad Jock Wade

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. These assholes need to be locked up

[keithbvadu2]

14. Hugs and kisses acc to Trump

[Botany]

22. Trump, 1/6/21"We Love You, You're Very Special"

President Trump’s Message to Violent Mob Overtaking Capitol: "We Love You, You’re Very Special"

President Donald Trump released a chilling, pre-taped video telling his mob of supporters overtaking the U.S. Capitol, “Go home. We love you, you’re very special.”

“I know your pain, I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order,” Trump posted on Twitter. “We don’t want anybody hurt. It’s a very tough period of time. There’s never been a time like this, where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us. From me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you, you’re very special. We’ve seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know you how feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”

[usaf-vet]

16. Please someone send all of the DUer a picture of "Scallops" hands in handcuffs. I'll be waiting.

[BlueStater]

19. Another POS redneck.

Fuck him. Lock him up and throw away the key. We’ll see if he cares then.

[mnmoderatedem]

21. Blue lives matter.

except when they don't

[NoMoreRepugs]

24. Trying to understand the motives of people who are

anything BUT rational human beings is beyond me - and I have a serious collection of old tinfoil hats!

[marble falls]

25. No bail.

[Stuart G]

26. These fools thought that they would get away with it....with no consequences.!!!

...They will learn a lesson in prison from other prisoners: "No, you can't get away with it..."
...A lot of these Trump followers haven't got a clue...10 years in prison...is no walk in the park.
Some of the other prisoners will not like these jerks.
...These jerks will pay a price that they never expected to pay..And it is a price that these jerks
couldn't even think about when they did what they did. Yes, I believe some other prisoners will
teach them....and that is ok with me.

[soldierant]

35. Small detail - This is not direct from Markos,

but written by a community user whose username is PvtJarHead, and who has made it his personal mission to track down as much follow-up on the rioters as he possibly can. You can get to his other articles by hovering on his name, going to his profile, and looking through his "diaries posted." Personally I'm impressed by his work.