"Jade Sacker, a documentary filmmaker working on a project about Sullivan and his brother, was there alongside Sullivan for much of the riot. As she filmed Sullivan and the mob around him, he was in her sight "40 to 50% of the time," Sacker told PolitiFact.

"I wouldn’t say that he was directing the charge or anything. He was certainly actively there and interested in what was going on," Sacker said. "He was recording the whole time." "