A Short-Lived Pardon

In January of 2025, Matthew Huttle was one of nearly 1600 people to receive a pardon from Donald Trump for his participation in the January 6, 2021 riot. Less than a week later, he was dead - shot and killed in an altercation with a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop in Indiana.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories

https://www.shu.edu/news/a-demographic-and-legal-profile-of-january-6-prosecutions.html

https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/tzm3576zdg/1/files/12dd7a26-cc10-4844-b141-05ee077ea97f

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-high-water-mark-of-the-jan.-6-prosecutions

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/01/31/trump-pardon-jan-6-indiana-man-shot-matthew-huttle-pulled-over-speeding-jasper-county/78022270007/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q5nK0oUyXE&ab_channel=CBSChicago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/jan-6-rioter-shot-indiana-traffic-stop.html

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66637875/united-states-v-huttle/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66637874/united-states-v-huttle/

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.