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   Message 47,317 of 48,889   
   Bradley K. Sherman to All   
   More Capitol rioters in viral posts arre   
   05 Jul 21 07:36:18   
   
   XPost: alt.politics.clinton, alt.america, alt.gossip.celebrities   
   XPost: alt.fan.sean-hannity   
   From: bksherman@loser.piece.of.shit   
      
   (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested two more Capitol Hill   
   rioters whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the   
   House speaker’s lectern and another who wore horns and a fur   
   pelt, while a top Democratic lawmaker called on mobile carriers   
   to preserve social media content related to the carnage.   
      
   Dozens of people have been charged following the storming of the   
   Capitol on Wednesday, with the FBI asking the public to help   
   identify participants, given the proliferation of images of the   
   riots on the internet. Five people have died, including a police   
   officer.   
      
   Jacob Anthony Chansley, who featured prominently on social media   
   wearing horns, a fur pelt, face paint and brandishing a spear   
   adorned with the U.S. flag, turned himself in to police, the   
   Department of Justice said.   
      
   Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, called the FBI’s Washington   
   office on Thursday and later told agents “he came as part of a   
   group effort with other ‘patriots’ from Arizona, at the request   
   of the President that all ‘patriots’ come to D.C. on Jan. 6,”   
   the DOJ said in a release.   
      
   Federal agents also arrested Adam Christian Johnson, whose photo   
   as he smiled and waved as he carried off House of   
   Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern also went viral.   
   Johnson, of Parrish, Florida, also streamed live video on   
   Facebook of himself as he walked the halls of the Capitol,   
   according to the Tampa Bay Times.   
      
   The video has been removed from online platforms and all of   
   Johnson’s pages have been taken down.   
      
   On Saturday Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who is the incoming   
   chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote to the   
   chief executives of 11 mobile carriers and social media   
   companies, urging them to preserve content and associated meta-   
   data connected to the riot, which erupted as lawmakers gathered   
   to certify the election of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.   
      
   In his letters, Warner emphasized how the rioters took time to   
   document the event and share it through social media and text   
   messages “to celebrate their disdain for our democratic process.”   
      
   Before his arrest, NBC network reported, Chansley gloated about   
   how the crowd infiltrated the Capitol, forcing lawmakers to flee.   
      
   “The fact that we had a bunch of traitors in office, hunkered   
   down, put on gas masks and retreat to their underground bunker,   
   I consider that a win,” he said to NBC News.   
      
   https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-police-   
   investigation/more-capitol-rioters-in-viral-posts-arrested-   
   senator-urges-social-media-providers-to-keep-data-idUSKBN29E0JC   
         
      
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