Live your life so that the entire Internet doesn’t celebrate your arrest. It began with a tweet, one that was rapidly retweeted, favorited and shared. Texts began to fly among people.
Discord servers buzzed with expletive-filled reactions, photos and so many potato-based memes. A Twitter Space popped up and rapidly filled with laughter and mockery from around the country. Outside the DC Jail, and the arrived, bullhorns in hand, to taunt the of with the news: Tommy Tatum had been .
A loathsome insurrectionist who bragged that he was “untouchable,” Tatum was more than just a January 6th rioter. He spent almost two years in DC harassing police officers and victims of the Trump-inspired attack on the Capitol. Claiming that he knew the truth about that day, he was a figure of some note in the conspiracy universe who appeared on podcasts and YouTube shows to spread the lie that antifa caused the insurrection, despite the fact that he had filmed himself attacking the police.
Tatum was also a key figure in the pro-insurrection vigil outside the DC Jail which calls itself “Freedom Corner.” Bald and well over 300 pounds, he was the muscle of the group who took it upon himself to bully and stalk counterprotestors, most of whom were women a fraction of his size. I wrote about the insurrectionist shitshow known as .
In response, he doxxed me. This is my story. It’s an excerpt from my memoir, .
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