We saw terrible violence at the Capitol last week.

In all honesty, it pails in comparison to what we saw over the last year, especially during the summer when Antifa and Black Lives Matter destroyed entire cities.

In fact, they took control over a federal building and established an autonomous zone that they declared was seceded from the United States and the local governments did nothing to combat it.

What happened in D.C. at the Capitol was wrong, there is no denying that. However, there is more evidence to suggest that Antifa and BLM started the violence.

One of the individuals that can be seen in the video showing Ashli Babbit getting shot has been identified as John Earle Sullivan, a member of Black Lives Matter and far more.

Sullivan was actually arrested back in July of last year during a Black Lives Matter protest and is part of the Insurgence USA group, according to a police affidavit.

“Protesters traveled through downtown Provo. The protesters did not obtain a permit for the event,” the affidavit states. “John Sullivan and Insurgence USA had social media postings promoting other protesters to join them.”

Between 80 and 100 people were part of the protest.

“The protest traveled on the roadways blocking motorists who have the right of way. John Sullivan blocked vehicles from freely moving lawfully. During the course of the protest, two handguns were brandished and two shots fired toward a motorist traveling to Home Depot. Vehicles were damaged by protestors as well as by John Sullivan,” the affidavit states.

“As a protest organizer John Sullivan is heard and seen as he is promoting protesters to block roadways, keeping motorists from traveling lawfully and freely.”

Sullivan was also captured on video threatening to beat a woman in an SUV, according to the affidavit, and then kicking her door, leaving a dent.

One of the men who was part of the siege of the Capitol building is John Earle Sullivan, an extreme BLM activist from Utah. He was arrested & charged in July 2020 over a BLM-antifa riot where drivers in Provo were threatened & one was shot. https://t.co/C0WQsEfcIG pic.twitter.com/Kxm5du2Ozs

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) January 7, 2021

John Earle Sullivan, who was inside the Capitol building during the siege on Wednesday, previously gave a speech in BLM Plaza in DC in August 2020 where he identifies as being part of an insurgency group & calls for a violent left-wing revolution. pic.twitter.com/6XeaTHmPlh

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) January 8, 2021

I know a number of people who were there in Washington that day, and one of them, who I do know personally said the following: