Well, I guess you can pardon the felon but you can’t pardon the felon’s attitude. From what little we can gather from the report coming out of Hobart, Indiana Matthew W. Huttle, who was pardoned last week and released after serving six months in prison, got himself a gun and was up to no good when he was pulled over on a traffic stop. Things evidently got hairy and the deputy pulled his gun and fired. Must have been born under a bad sign with a blue moon in his eye, doncha think? New York Times:
“During the traffic stop, the officer attempted to arrest the suspect when the suspect resisted,” the state police said. “An altercation took place between the suspect and the officer, which resulted in the officer firing his weapon and fatally wounding the suspect.”
An investigation showed that Mr. Huttle “was in possession of a firearm,” the state police said.
The state police said that no further information would be released about the shooting, which it was investigating with help from the Jasper County prosecutor. Once the investigation is completed, the findings will be sent to the county prosecutor for review, the state police said. […]
Mr. Huttle was among the more than 1,550 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack who received pardons from Mr. Trump last week.
Federal prosecutors said that Mr. Huttle, a journeyman carpenter, had traveled to Washington with his uncle, Dale Huttle, and had recorded video of the riot as he entered the Capitol. Matthew Huttle pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building, a misdeamenor, in August 2023. He was sentenced to six months in prison, court records show.
Dale Huttle, who used a flagpole to assault law enforcement officers, pleaded guilty in December 2023 to a felony count of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon, causing serious bodily injury. He was sentenced in June 2024 to 30 months in prison, prosecutors said.
In court documents related to the Jan. 6 case, prosecutors said that Matthew Huttle had a long history of arrests and convictions for driving while intoxicated.
This will sound cold, but to my mind it’s one less sociopath in the world. And Huttle’s lawyer is portraying him as nonviolent but the fact was he did have a gun in the car and most non violent people don’t drive around with weapons for company. So my assumption is that Huttler, like everybody else Trump pardoned, felt himself empowered. Who knows where he was headed or what he intended to use the gun for?
You may recall that Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman’s first response to his pardon was to go on social media, and crow in all-caps “NOW I’M GONNA GO BY [sic] SOME MOTHA FUCKIN’ GUNS!!!”
One less member of the lunatic fringe. I feel no sympathy. I am sorry the man followed Trump. In his case, all this MAGA idiocy cost him his life. I’m waiting to see if Trump gets on social media and calls him a “great patriot.”
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If there is a hell then he’s already suffering there. As he should be. In a variation on an old lawyer joke: What do you call a J6 rioter who got himself shot dead resisting arrest after being pardoned? A good start!
I think you nailed it Ursula…he felt empowered to be a raging asshole. Live by the gun…die by the gun. 1549 to go.
PZ predicted from Day 1 of the pardons that we would meet many of the pardonees again, Infected by their MAGA natures, semse of grievance anmd sense of entitlement, sanctioned by their idol it was a sure bet. We’ve heard of a few altercations and, I suspect, there are many more low level events so they will be lining up to appear in local and national headlines. A “where are they now” survey in a year or two (if it takes that long) would be interesting.
Spot on Ursula: this loser will become one of Trumpler’s martyrs for sure, if the very busy dictator even notices. Hitler made a folk hero out of a lowlife street thug called Horst Wessel, a brownshirted stormtrooper shot dead in 1930 by communist demonstrators he was attacking.
A tacky song in his honor and name became a favourite Nazi marching anthem.
Like I said, can’t pardon a dead guy.
This way LE won’t have to deal with them a second time.
Zero f*cks given…