A Jan. 6 participant has been harassing police officers at a Capitol attack trial
Source: NBC News
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A Jan. 6 participant has been harassing police officers at a Capitol attack trial
Tommy Tatum said he was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, but has not been arrested. He has been filming himself confronting officers who fought off the mob.
Aug. 18, 2022, 11:06 AM EDT
By Ryan J. Reilly and Olympia Sonnier
WASHINGTON — A man who was present during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, but has not been arrested, confronted two law enforcement officers who served as witnesses at the trial of another man facing felony charges related to the insurrection this week. ... Tommy Tatum, a Mississippi man who has posted extensively online about Jan. 6 and refers to himself as an independent investigative journalist, has been posting videos of himself harassing officers who fought off the mob on Jan. 6.
“Do you think you honored your father’s memory by trying to kill me that day?” Tatum asked a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer in one video as he followed him down the street outside the courthouse following the officer’s testimony on Tuesday. “How does that make you feel as a man, does that bring your Vietnamese father honor? … I hope you take this dishonor to your family, to the grave.”
The officer had testified at trial earlier in the day about how he wanted to join the U.S. Marines when he turned 18, but ended up honoring the wishes of his family and continued his education before becoming a police officer. He and other members of law enforcement have been testifying in the trial of Kyle Fitzsimons, a Maine man facing felony charges, including for assaulting an officer during a brutal siege on the western tunnel, where some of the worst attacks on police took place that day.
Tatum himself has not been charged in connection with Jan. 6, although he posted videos he’s said he filmed at the Capitol that day and even videos of a purported phone call he claims he got from the FBI about the Capitol attack (NBC News is not able to confirm whether the call is authentic). Tatum has said in online posts that he was right next to Rosanne Boyland when she collapsed at the western tunnel amid the fighting between Trump supporters and police; Boyland died. There is no evidence that he went inside the Capitol building itself. ... Tatum also attempted to confront a Capitol Police officer in a courthouse elevator on Wednesday. He filmed and posted clips of both outside exchanges with the officers, and identified himself outside the courthouse.
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A Jan. 6 participant who has been harassing witnesses outside the trial of a felony Capitol attack defendant has been banned from the courtroom. Addition action may be forthcoming, per DOJ.
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A Jan. 6 participant has been harassing police officers at a Capitol attack trial
Tommy Tatum said he was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, but has not been arrested. He has been filming himself confronting officers who fought off the
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