People who want "healing" and "unity" -- that starts when you accept
1) that Biden won the election
2) an independent news media
3) science, even when it hurts your political stance
4) the need to fight climate change
5) democracy, without voter suppression.
Then, sure.
OK, new project: Let's find the people who beat the policeman to death. Someone sent me a photo of the scene but my notifications are getting flooded. Can anyone who has photos or video of that scene post them in the replies here?
Here's the photo I was show, apparently of the late Officer Sicknick. 3 people I'd love to ID:
1) CAT Sweatshirt (did he use that crutch as a weapon?)
2) Orange Sweatshirt (with helmet and baton)
3) Scalloped Backpack
Hundreds of Proud Boys and other fashy chuds were literally bused into Portland today, with armor, weighted gloves and metal rods, firearms and bear spray. They attacked BLM protestors unprovoked for hours while police protected them - and STILL were forced to retreat. Amazing
Perp
#4
, by popular demand, is Fingerman for obvious reasons. Looks short, balding, beard, drab jacket with some kind of yellow splash in front. Long ears?
You know what? No. Fuck YOU Fingerman.
Perp
#2
, Let's call him Orange-N-Teal. Pale orange sweatshirt, bold teal backpack, black tactical helmet, tactical looking gloves, wielding a lead pipe or baton. Maybe the one who knocked the officer out.
Say hello to Black Hat, better known as Matt Ryan Miller, 22, of Cooksville, Maryland (a Baltimore suburb.) He fancies himself a "Patriotic American Cowboy"!!
He wielded a fire extinguisher just a couple feet from where officer 5737 (Sicknick?) was beaten unconscious. Hmmm.
One at a time. Perp
#1
, let's call him CAT Sweat. Presumably a Caterpillar (Tractor) sweatshirt, grey hoodie. Yellow shape on back, maybe a "Don't Tread on Me" triangle. Looks like a club or knife on his hip, some other gear?
Sicknick was bashed with a fire extinguisher, regained consciousness, then died later. We see in one photo a perp holding a fire extinguisher just outside the gate, up on a stone bench, where he could have ambushed the officer and knocked him out. Haven't found video of that yet.
Obviously all of these are very crude images. First order of business is to figure out which entrance this was at. Next, try to find more photos or video of this. This image is from CNN. Then look for these 4 elsewhere in footage/photos.
Perp
#3
, call him Scallops for his distinctive scalloped grey backpack, with a pink something in the middle. Fatigue-colored clothes, bold red, black and white or red white and blue ball cap.
At that point, 0:25-0:30, a new perp - Caveman - beats the unconscious officer with a thick flagpole while a little balding guy in a brown jacket and Michigan sweatshirt takes the officer's helmet and puts it on, then drops and loses it.
OK you all, I need to get some sleep, so here's a summary of what we've learned (A LOT!).
Increasingly this does look like the fatal attack on Officer Sicknick, as part of the brutal half hour or more melee fight (with crushing) in the tunnel at the West entrance of the Capitol.
As for the fire extinguisher, an extremely nervous looking dude walks inside to the rotunda and stashes it behind a stanchion. Worth checking out.
@coyote4949
says the outside Fire extinguisher guy had a Washington Capitals Ovechkin jersey on under his black vest.
That snapshot shows 4 perps beating the unconscious body of an Officer, likely Sicknick. The Yahoo video shows fighting at the mouth of the tunnel, grabbing then pulling the limp body down the steps, as attackers beat him with metal batons and thick flagpoles. Reports say that...
Outside Fire Extinguisher guy also has a prominent Black Hat, which is now his name. We definitely want more photos and video of him -- not sure where that spraying fits into the timeline.
I'm done for tonight. To do: 1) find more still and video of these perps 2) isolate identifying marks (tats, scars, clothes) and trace them 3) try to match them to a home down and TRACK THEM DOWN. Carry on, see you in AM
@HeidiLeutbecher
His name is Bradley Dane Loose and he lives in Mansfield,Ohio. I’m his ex-wife and we share a son. He had been known as Brad Loos,and he pretends to be our son at times.
The helmet thief looks like our target Fingerman, and indeed he flips the entrance off. Not 100% that him though bc a similar dude with a colorful scarf and (at this point) a gray wool hat) is up next to the gate. Needs more scrutiny.
h/t
@beccacamping_
who found that photo.
At the start of the Yahoo video we see two of our four targets -- Scallops and Orange-N-Teal -- attacking the officers at the mouth of the gate. Scallops is jabbing with a crutch. From 0:17 to 0:25 they drag the officer down stairs.
per
@libraryluna
. Apparently a FB group called Carryology has hardcore backpack nerds who might ID it -- anyone have the energy to crop and ask? h/t
@Shizra41
. Color is not gray but "ACU digi-camo" and Scallops' jacket is OD green, per
@stephaniekinde2
.
Inside Nervous Fire Extinguisher guy has a black helmet, a reddish brown (suede?) jacket and vest, and what looks like a folder oversize bucket (Gilligan) hat over his chest, hanging from his chinstrap maybe.
As for our targets, Scallops is wearing a gray "3 day stretch backpack"
OK, I'm outta there. Have hundreds of photos of fash, focusing on tats, facial features and distinctive clothing for future ID needs. hmu if you need to track someone down.
New project: The Commander. (ID him and find him in video and in Parler dump). He clearly leads the assault on the tunnel - gives orders and people obey. He cycles fighters in and out of the tunnel assault mob.
@bellingcat
Does anybody know this guy? He seemed quite unhappy with me taking pictures of him, which is always a good sign. Nice of him to reveal his arm tats in the process though.
CAT Sweat is indeed wearing a gray Caterpillar hoodie. All 3 of them are visible on the stairs of the Yahoo video, and likely inside the tunnel in that 29:00 video
@No_Nazis_Please
It looks like the grey sweatshirt is this one. There are a number of reasons. 1) The logo on the back is correct. 2) If you look at the hood, there is a stripe along the center. 3) around the wrists there is a thick elastic fabric. 4) looks like fabric on sleve break is there.
Scallops also has a very distinctive red-billed ball cap with white back and black or blue front. He is very aggressive in leading the attack on the West entrance doorway.
Orange-N-Teal (ONT) has a distinctive sculpted black helmet with a white band across the front. Nike Swoosh?
New Op-ed in
@RVAmag
.
Why Andy Ngo is at Home in the Commonwealth Club. Regarding Andy Ngo's Appearance in Richmond next Friday and the org that's hosting him.
A ballot drop box outside the Boston Public Library was set on fire. 35 of 100 ballots were destroyed. If you voted between 2:30pm EST Saturday and 4 am Sunday morning, check this website to see if your ballot was counted. If not, go get a new one.
The guy in the Senate chamber with a bloody plastic bullet wound in his face was arrested. Joshua Black of Alabama said "I wanted to get inside the building so I could plead the blood of Jesus over it. That was my goal.”
Not creepy at all.
Horseshit. QAnon was a manufactured conspiracy that started with the idea that democrats are baby-munching pedophiles. There was never the tiniest bit of good faith in the whole enterprise.
Amazing to see President Biden speaking in front of that damn Inauguration Tunnel that hundreds of violent white nationalists fought so hard to conquer - and failed.
What We've Learned (so far) thread
We started looking for 4 rioters who dragged an officer (
#5737
) into the mob and beat him before and after he lost consciousness. We thought he might be officer Brian Sicknick, who later died. We know now he was officer A.P. Wayte who survived.
This is the first conspiracy charge I've seen against a Capitol coup leader, Oath Keeper Thomas Edward Caldwell (Commander T), 65, of Clarke County, Virginia who hosted Ohio militia leader Jessica Watkins.
It won't be the last.
Here's a clear face shot of GrayPack, who threw the fire extinguisher that may have killed office Sicknick. (An MD said it looked like the kind of trauma a guy might "walk off" with later fatal bleeding.)
Any idea what CFD is for? Husky dude.
Is this
#bullhornlady
out at the first barricade, pink hat hidden under that furry hood? What's on her chest?
@jsrailton
11:08-11:22 of this 18:25 ABQRaw video "People storm the US Capital
In case it's not obvious, these are NOT comedy shows, any more than neo-Nazis are "joking" when they talk about killing Jews "ironically". They're not at comedy venues, and these aren't comedians. It's a pretext.
Jon Schaffer, Columbus, IN, has been arrested in connection to Jan 6 incident at the U.S. Capitol. Schaffer faces 6 charges including engaging in an act of physical violence in a Capitol building. Schaffer was allegedly among rioters who sprayed Capitol police with "bear spray."
The attack on the Capitol was coordinated and planned.
Here are the insurrectionists talking about the plan, including detailed schematics of the Capitol building.
Unlike most conspiracy theories, we know that QAnon was created by 1 person on one particular day.
Ever notice how QAnon
1) inexorably built toward Trump declaring martial law and executing opponents, and
2) disappeared as soon as Trump's coup failed?
I bet Roger Stone has.
New: "ThroatMic" aka "MALE23" (NOT his age, it's a code that
@Bellingcat
&
@jsrailton
use)
Looks like an old military backpack with "BERT SC" written on it -- there are several men with surname Bert in South Carolina but hard to google. Submit pix/vid at
@jerryiannelli
To be fair, the footage is probably why they were arrested. They may not have thought it was bad but everyone else on earth knew riots would break out.
Without footage, they would have made up a lie about him pulling a gun or something and it would have worked.
OK, time to identify another Capitol attacker, one who had some sort of leadership role perhaps. The key battleground of the invasion was the melee fight in the West entrance tunnel, scene of this horrific video of people getting crushed. (rough stuff)
Here is a fantastic chart of the particular rioters that we're searching for. Take a bow,
@pugcoot
. (And please send her any better/notably different images you have.)
Say hello to Stephanie Hazelton, 49, of Medford New Jersey. DOB 11/3/1971. She tries to hide her identity under the public aliases Ayla Wolf and Ayla Wolfe. But she doesn't try hard enough. "Ayla Wolf" is a public figure who leads frequent demonstrations against COVID closures.
New project:
#Bullhornlady
with pink wool hat, and deep knowledge of Capitol floorplan, barking orders to the first attackers who broke in.
@jsrailton
is already on this task; you need to follow him if you're not already. This is a key player - please help out if you have time
"Proud" Boy Dominic "Spazzo" Pezzola 43 of Rochester was arrested, faces 20 years ... "he and others stated they intended to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence..." Cuttng his hair and beard wasn't enough to avoid arrest.
Great find by
@iamPWK
-- looks like
#bullhornlady
took off her shades to polish them, just after lower level breach, on the InfoWars video. Anyone have the timestamp here?
@AngryLeft2024
@bellingcat
He is the guy referred to as Fingerman in our thread. Leather or dark brown jacket over his Michigan sweatshirt (yellow letters on navy). He picks up the helmet of officer 5737, puts it on briefly and then drops it, forgets it. 0:25-0:38 in Yahoo video
@Mr_Babe_Lincoln
@IwriteOK
"Proud" Boys were bused in from out of state to intimidate BLM demonstrators, and attacked them without provocation. But despite an advantage in numbers, weapons, unscrupulousness and police support, they retreated from locals with umbrellas.
He's not wrong. So kick Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert and Gosar and Gohmert out of your caucus. Already did it with Steve King. Not hard.
Any Republican claim to rehabilitation has to start there. (And acknowledging Biden's win.) Not holding my breath.
Looks like
#GrayPack
/
#extinguisherman
has been arrested. Robert Sanford, Chester Pa Fire Department.
This is a success but also in some ways a failure of our efforts to track this guy down. Let's take a moment to think about what DIDN'T work in our sleuthing.
@sameSorbet
Great lead! Looks like a guy with a black wool hat firing it, but we should check out the people around him too. Meanwhile I found this chilling photo. Maybe from The Hill but I couldn't find it there.
Recently we doxxed "Black Hat," the guy who shot off a fire extinguisher outside the Western tunnel entrance to the Capitol. He is Matt Miller, 22, of Cooksville, MD. Here's further confirmation from his own Instagram, showing his Ovechkin Washington Capitals jersey & Stetson.
Here's the best closeup of zip tie guy and his associate (Mom?) She is much less careful re: her appearance. I think we'll find him through her. Also: good thread here on details.
As I look at photos of the "zip tie guy" I noticed a few details that may be easy to overlook when your eye is clearly drawn towards the zip ties.
Some of these details may be indicators of where he is from and possible group affiliation.
So Donald Trump's new lawyers are Jeffrey Epstein's last attorney, and the prosecutor who got in trouble for refusing to indict Bill Cosby?
Interesting.
Solid break here! Scallops is very likely to be a North Carolina boy. This is a unique hat, made in NC and sold only at a shop in Wake Forest, open for only two years.
North Carolina folks, do you know this aggressive and confident street fighter?
@GoadGatsby
@socialistdogmom
Lindsay ✨((going quiet. see pin for other socials)
Ashli Babbit's strike team was pounding on the last door between them and Congress at 2:30. Christopher Ray Grider, of central Texas and Chad Barrett Jones of Coxs Creek, KY have been arrested.
Russell Brand joins Glenn Greenwald, Joe Rogan, Lee Camp and other vaguely left personalities who suddenly adopted contrarian views and inevitably end up defending Putin along with right-wingers who do the same (Boris Johnson, Trump, etc.) What is going on?
Please don't just throw a name out of someone you think looks the same. That discussion is best done via DM, to test it vigorously before bringing heat on someone who might just look similar.
In particular, middle aged men with graying beards are easily confused. As we've seen.
I've been wondering why Capitol attackers kept fighting so hard to win access to the Inauguration tunnel on the west side, when they were already inside upstairs an hour earlier. This might explain why.
Washington Post: U.S. v Thomas Edward Caldwell, Donovan Ray Crowl and Jessica Marie Watkins This communication strongly suggests that one or more members of Congress were communicating with Oath Keepers the location of MOCs. Who else would know the real-
🚨🚨🚨Three years in federal prison for Logan Barnhart, the Trump-loving romance novel cover model who dragged a cop down the stairs of the U.S. Capitol face-first on Jan. 6.
Trump's immunity expires at noon EST on January 20th. In my dreams, a large group of FBI agents starts walking toward him at 11:55am and we get to watch him try to run for five minutes before one agent (a Black woman) gently pushes him and he collapses on the ground, sobbing.
Ex-Navy SEAL Matt Bracken, a frequent Infowars guest with ties to the Oath Keepers, has been talking lately about "red lines" that would trigger the patriot/militia world to start killing.
Today he said one such red line would be the arrest of President Trump.
Tennessee Asst. DA Dave Baker admits he was at Trump rally in DC on 1/6 but claims he didn't enter Capitol despite FB evidence. Then he blamed Antifa for violence & threatened to sue newspaper. Looks a bit like
#Fingerman
tbh (in the other picture) Sketchy
OK you all, thanks so much for your help. I need to step away from my computer and do life things for a while. BellingCat is on the case, no one better to handle it. Please send them your tips &c.
We're looking for open source images of the moment when Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick was attacked on January 6th, which eventually led to his death, continuing efforts started by
@No_Nazis_Please
Wow, FBI is really drilling down on
#Bullhornlady
. First photo is "enhanced with Remini" -- looks more like it's enhanced with Botox.
Guess what folks -- if it was Boebert's mom, the FBI wouldn't be offering so many photos asking for people to match.
Help the
#FBI
identify this woman who allegedly unlawfully entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6. If you have information, submit a tip to . When providing a tip on any of the below photos, please refer to photograph 110.
@FBIWFO
Submit legislation in every state to bar those who invaded the Capitol from ever holding office. It should pass, and if it doesn't, those who vote against it will have revealed which side of the coup they are on.
This is very interesting - two far-right Republican Congressmen from Arizona asked Trump for pardons for their actions in the January 6th coup attempt (and were denied).
Why would they do that? What actions?
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli aka “Based Hermes”, New Jersey active military arrested. 4 others named here.
Note: he admitted giving military hand- signals to other attackers. Can we find a photo and locate him in videos?
"Oath Keeper," Champaign County bartender and army vet Jessica Watkins, 38, formed the "Ohio State Regular Militia" -- the group seen in fatigues marching "Ranger file" linked hand to shoulder through the mob of Capitol invaders.