"The Atlanta private-school world is small enough that, the day after January 6th, 2021, I heard from multiple sources that at least one insurrectionist had, like me, graduated from its ranks. Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., had attended an expensive school called Lovett in the nineteen-eighties and, as I soon learned from his classmates and friends, had been a star runner there, winning a state championship in the two-mile."
"Meredith arrived late to the insurrection in Washington-car trouble had delayed him-in possession of multiple weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices. Texts that he'd sent to his family in recent days compelled his mother to call the F.B.I. on him. Referring to President Trump, he'd written, "He wants heads and I'm going to deliver." Meredith was one of the first people charged for crimes related to January 6th."
A January 6th insurrectionist from Atlanta's private-school community attended Lovett in the 1980s and had been a state-champion two-mile runner. In the decade before January 6th his life unraveled and conspiracy theories, including QAnon, took hold of him. He arrived late to the Washington insurrection carrying multiple weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and large-capacity feeding devices. Family texts prompted an FBI tip after he wrote that the president "wants heads" and he intended to deliver. He was among the first charged for January 6th crimes, and the court urged intensive medical health treatment. Over fifteen hundred people were charged in connection to January 6th and were later pardoned by the President, and one pardoned insurrectionist is now campaigning for reparations.
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