Retired NASCAR driver and son arrested for alleged assaults on police during Jan. 6 riot

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

A retired NASCAR driver and his son were arrested Wednesday and charged along with two other Pennsylvania men for allegedly assaulting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office.

Tighe Scott, 75, and his son Jarret Scott, 48, face two felony offenses each as well as a multiple misdemeanor offenses for a series of alleged assaults prosecutors say they engaged in outside the Capitol among the pro-Trump mob.

Charging documents show the FBI confirmed Tighe Scott's identity in part because a witness told agents he was a retired NASCAR driver.

The two Scotts were arrested along with another Pennsylvania father and son, Scott Alex Slater Jr. and Scott Slater Sr., all of whom prosecutors say physically and verbally harassed law enforcement trying to protect the Capitol -- using a variety of objects like flagpoles, golf clubs and an "Area Closed" sign to throw or strike against a line of police trying to control the mob.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/retired-nascar-driver-tighe-scott-son-arrested-alleged/story?id=110870692

[ExciteBike66]

1. If you're not first, you're last...

[AZ8theist]

2. I stopped going to NASCAR races decades ago...

...not because of the racing. Because of the crowd it draws.

Mostly rednecks and hillbillys. You know, MORONS.

The last race I went to in Phoenix there was some southern wanker sitting behind us chain smoking. Even though smoking in the stands was supposed to be banned. It got so bad I eventually turned around and offered the clown 20 bucks if he stopped smoking for the duration of the race.
He didn't take me up on my offer, but at least he left his seat to quench his habit.

I can't imagine what the crowds are like now, with all of the Dotard flags everywhere. Disgusting.
Doesn't surprise me one bit a couple of former drivers were commiting crimes on J6.

[tom_kelly]

3. Didn't make the NASCAR HOF

But he's keeping his name alive. Lets Go Tighe!!!

[SouthernIrish]

4. The Dad was like a minor league racer.

I have been following Nascar for over 40 years and have never heard of him.

[rpannier]

9. His racing bio

Scott competed in dirt racing events before moving into the NASCAR Winston Cup Series in the late 1970s and early 1980s. While he recorded no career wins in NASCAR, he had multiple top-10 finishes and made several appearances at the Daytona 500, including a sixth place finish in 1979.

[republianmushroom]

5. Your application to Fed u, and the felon will be processed and you will be notified of the result.

[NanaCat]

6. A family that traitors together

Craters together.

[Pas-de-Calais]

7. Too many left turns

[marble falls]

11. And too freaking loud. We lived by a NASCAR track near Hinsdale, Il (now off the circuit for twenty or more years) ...

... that we could hear two or three miles away. Just once a year. Could never figure out the economics of a track open for one week a year.

[oasis]

8. The crowd booed Michelle Obama

and Jill Biden when they were official starters at a NASCAR event some years ago during Obama's presidency.
Fuck those hick clowns and their gas guzzling crash mobiles.

[jmowreader]

10. I had to look him up because this is a name I wasn't familiar with

He quit racing in Winston Cup in 1982, which is before I started watching it.