MAGA Martyr's Brother Assaults Latino Worker While Unloading Racist Tirade

The brother of a Capitol insurrectionist, who was killed while attempting to invade Congress during the certification process, was arrested and charged with a hate crime on Wednesday, March 9, after he allegedly went on a racist tirade against a pool worker.

Roger Stefan Witthoeft, Jr., a 33-year-old man who runs a pool cleaning business in San Diego, drove into a roadblock on September 2021, prompting him to exit his car and hurl insults and racist threats against the traffic controller, who happens to be Latino, according to the Daily Beast.

Witthoeft proceeded to berate the individual after he was told that he needed to take a different route due to an issue that the utility company was looking over. He started throwing racial slurs against the man, telling him to “Go back to your country” before challenging him to a fight, WGN9 reported.

He also called the man a “f***ing immigrant” and asked him to speak in English, though there is no indication that the traffic controller was speaking in any other language than that. It is unclear if anyone intervened in the situation, or if Witthoeft just left after he finished his racist tirade.

Witthoeft is the half-brother of insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt, who was killed during the Capitol Insurrection where Trump supporters attempted to take over Congress to stop the certification process that would confirm Joe Biden’s win as the President of the United States.

Babbitt has been considered a martyr by fellow Trump supporters and members of the far-right, and Babbitt’s lawyer as well as former President Donald Trump continues to insist that her killing was unjustified.

The Department of Justice, however, has cleared the officer who killed Babbitt, and the officer has said that the killing was a “last resort” in an attempt “to save the lives of members of Congress and myself and my fellow officers” during the attempted insurrection.

Witthoeft is being charged for hate crime battery, as well as violating the constitutional rights of the traffic controller. His trial is set to start in April.