VIDEO: 3m26s: 18 Feb 2021: Sky News Australia: ABC (Australia) gives thousands of taxpayer dollars to Capitol Hill rioter for footage
A man indicted on six federal charges in the US for his involvement in the Capitol riots on January 6 was paid thousands of dollars from the ABC for his footage of the siege.
Remittance advice from the national broadcaster shows taxpayers spent $2375 to buy footage from disgraced Capitol Hill rioter and anti-Trump activist John Sullivan.
Sullivan was captured on camera encouraging rioters to “we gotta get this s—t burned.”
Sky News host Andrew Bolt said there were “very serious questions” for the ABC after the documents revealled the public broadcaster paid Mr Sullivan after he was charged.
Mr Sullivan was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on six charges including obstruction of a civil proceeding, civil disorder, and disorderly conduct.
Federal police also accused the self-described anti-Trump activist of actively encouraging the siege.
The ABC’s flagship current affairs program Four Corners last week ran a report on protesters rioting at the US Capitol.
“The reporter, Sarah Ferguson, was clear that this was all the work of wicked right wingers,” Mr Bolt said.
Mr Bolt approached the ABC to respond on the issue, but the public broadcaster has not replied...
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/abc-gives-thousands-of-taxpayer-dollars-to-capitol-hill-rioter-for-footage/video/aefe2c4e389f30c3f54db0ddc5e253c2
various bits and pieces:
7 June 2021: Michael Smith News Australia: The ABC (Australia) admits it was aware it was paying a US felon for video of his crimes - but paid him anyway
WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/06/the-abc-admits-it-was-aware-it-was-paying-a-us-felon-for-video-of-his-crimes-but-paid-him-anyway.html
from 30sec in...ignore CNN claim in headline. Sullivan calling up the protesters, then the interchange with his offsider, Jade Sacker, etc:
Youtube: 3m06s: VIDEO OF BLM ACTIVIST JOHN SULLIVAN (JAYDEN X) INSTIGATING AT CAPITOL HILL WITH (CNN) PHOTO JOURNALIST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zudQDj2iJRA
Foreign Policy: Author: Jade Sacker
https://foreignpolicy.com/author/jade-sacker/
Jade Sacker: About
I am a documentary photographer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, California.
I come from a Native American family on my mom’s side, now culturally displaced from their land. My father’s family descends from Russia, where they fled from the pogroms at the outset of the 20th Century...
The unifying theme of my long-term projects is migration, telling stories of those who are displaced, and those whose identity is challenged...
Client List —
Foreign Policy
NBC
NPR
Huffington Post ...
Buzzfeed ETC
https://www.jadesacker.com/about
14 Jan 2021: Politifact: “CNN-NPR photojournalist Jade Sacker was embedded with antifa leader” during the U.S. Capitol attack.
Photographer with man arrested in Capitol siege was not working for CNN or NPR...
Sacker, who says she is a documentary photographer, lists NPR and CNBC among her clients. She told PolitiFact for a previous fact-check that she is a documentary filmmaker working on a project about Sullivan and his brother, and was alongside Sullivan for much of the riot.
She did not return a call for this fact-check...
There remains no legitimate evidence that the mob at the Capitol was infiltrated or led by antifa activists in disguise.
We rated as Mostly False a claim shared on Facebook that Sullivan incited the riot at the Capitol. incited the riot at the Capitol...
Sullivan has denied being connected with antifa and there is no evidence that antifa incited the attack...
Note: On Jan. 18, 2021, after this article was published, Sacker confirmed that she was not working on Jan. 6 for CNN or NPR and that she was accompanying Sullivan at the Capitol as part of her documentary on him.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/18/facebook-posts/photographer-man-arrested-capitol-siege-was-not-wo/