The self-proclaimed “Lectern Guy” from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol got a chance to mock the man who wanted to throw the book at him this week.
On X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday, Manatee County resident Adam Johnson, who calls himself “The Lectern Guy” on social media, called attention to the sudden legal morass engulfing former federal prosecutor Patrick Scruggs.
Scruggs, who spent 11 years as a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Tampa, was charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, and armed burglary following a bizarre stabbing incident on the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a motorist and his wife were traveling south along Interstate 275 on the bridge when they noticed a stopped car whose driver was slumped over the steering wheel.
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They pulled over to help. When the driver could not get in the stopped car, he returned to his own vehicle to get something to break a window. Before that happened, the stopped driver was startled and suddenly accelerated, crashing into the couple’s car.
He then tried to reverse and flee, hitting Scruggs’ car.
State troopers reported that Scruggs approached the car that struck how own, smashed the window and began stabbing the driver with a pocket knife. When the motorist who initially stopped tried to intervene, Sruggs turned on him. Scruggs then fled the scene and was later arrested.
Scruggs, who worked as a federal prosecutor in Tampa from September 2012 to April 2023, was initially held in the Pinellas County Jail on $65,000 bail. Revolver News reported Wednesday that he bonded out and was freed.
Still, Johnson, aka “The Lectern Guy,” took the opportunity to highlight Scruggs’ legal troubles.
“Meet the guy who prosecuted me in Tampa for walking in a building on January 6th,” Johnson posted on X along with a picture of Scruggs’ mugshot.
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“My crimes were so egregious that he demanded I wear an ankle monitor, be drugged (sic) tested at random, surrender my passports, be restricted to (the) middle district of Florida, and given a nightly curfew. What restrictions do you think he should get for stabbing a man repeatedly in public?”
Johnson was dubbed the “lectern guy” because on J6 he literally carted off then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and paraded it around the Capitol.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, Johnson was charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority.
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