And yet on January 6, 2021, Jared Wise stood in the middle of a violent mob and cheered as his fellow Americans—police officers—were beaten, brutalized, and overwhelmed. He screamed at those same officers, calling them Nazis. He shouted, “You are the Gestapo, you can’t see it?” And then, as if channeling every ounce of hatred and rage into a single command, he screamed, “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!”
That’s not hyperbole. That’s on body camera footage. That’s not disputed. That’s not in question.
And this week, the man who incited violence against police officers in defense of a lie—the Big Lie—was rewarded with a job inside the Department of Justice.
Let that sink in. The man who urged the killing of police officers is now employed at the DOJ.