Photographer Who Filmed Ashli Babbitt’s Killing Remains a Man of Contradictions

John Sullivan said his few Satan-themed songs are meant to evoke imagery like the Book of Revelation in the Bible. "It's art at the end of the day," he said. Press Kit/JaydenX

John E. Sullivan, the social-justice provocateur who filmed the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, at times says he doesn’t believe in God, yet at other times, he does believe.

He recently produced a series of Satan-themed music videos, but says he doesn’t idolize the devil. Despite the troubling and graphic imagery in some of his music, Sullivan said his work is artistic social commentary about the state of society and human relations.