Jonathan Mellis

His story reads like a twisted tale from the dust bin of communist corruption.  Regardless of what the main-stream-media has to say about Jon and his cohorts, he is a patriot and has been involved in the community service in his hometown for years.  He’s even volunteered at the Lebanon, Tennessee Senior Citizens Center, Special Olympics Nashville, Ronald MacDonald House, and The Chive in Nashville. He loves people and truly respects law enforcement. 

He attended a Trump rally in December of 2020, where he met a woman and fell in love.  She later spoke at a J6 rally outside the DC Gulag in September of 2021 protesting the inhumane treatment that Jonathan received at the hands of the prison system.

Here’s what went down on January 6^th according to Jonathan and eye witnesses; he was headed to the west terrace of the Capital when his group was confronted by heavily armed police.  A tug-of-war for positioning began during which the police used overly aggressively methods to beat back the crowd, leaving many hurting. Jonathan went to help when he heard screams from another protestor on the ground.  Body camera video evidence shows, which was withheld by law enforcement for several months, Rosanne Boyland being brutally beaten by a metro police officer.  The beating was so harsh that the riot stick used on her head broke in half! She was already lifeless on the ground when Jon arrived, but there was another woman struggling for life, as well as a downed policeman.  People were screaming “I can’t breathe!”  and “There’s a woman dying!”  Coming to their aid, Jon was later perceived as “an imminent threat” as one officer testified later in court.  Police claim he was attacking an officer after running to the aid of Boyland’s friend, who is seen on video calling for help and screaming “She’s dead, she’s dead!”  And further, the record states that Jonathan was seen on video shouting to the other protestors, “Keep him safe!” referring to a police officer who’d fallen into the crowd.

Soon two people fingered him as being at the Capital on that day and he was arrested without incident on January 26^th, 2021. Jonathan was arraigned and charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon.

That would be enough, considering he didn’t harm anyone or destroy any government property.  But that was just the start of his downward spiral.  Jonathan is one of the “Jan Sixers” who was held in 11 months of pre-trial detention under 23-hour lockdown, placed without justification for 35 days in solitary confinement and denied attendance to his father’s funeral, a decorated Veteran of the Vietnam war.  In Jonathan’s own words: “Through months of solitary confinement—which only eased a little as the months went by, but are back to strict 22-hour lockdown—and random cell doors being opened in the middle of the night to have us (other J6 inmates) zip-tied and beaten by correctional officers… through all of the improper dietary nutrition and lack of even video visitation we have been there for each other. None of us have seen the faces of our loved ones in almost a year. No haircuts or shaves either. The mold is rampant in our cells and the plumbing is constantly leaking. Our lives have been a living hell.”