A Middle Tennessee sheriff’s deputy (and former Georgia sheriff’s deputy) became the 606th person charged in the Jan. 6 riot and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. attorneys say 27-year-old Ronald Colton McAbee was the man seen in an officer’s body camera footage fighting a Metropolitan Police Department officer and dragging another Metro officer into the mob.
Court documents indicated McAbee is part of a seven-person indictment group all charged with assaulting officers on the day of the insurrection. His co-defendants included Jack Wade Whitton, a Georgia fitness trainer, who is accused of using a crutch to attack an Metropolitan police officer, and Jeffrey Sabol, who is accused of holding a baton across an officer’s neck.
Before McAbee went to work in November 2020 for the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, he worked as deputy in the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia. That would make him a seasoned law enforcement officer now accused of trying to hurt other law enforcement officers.
So much for “Blue Lives Matter.”