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Identity of alleged Capitol attackers revealed on Instagram

At least 30 other people who violently entered the Capitol on Wednesday, some of them carrying firearms, amid protests over the election result in U.S, have been identified in the last hours by activists through social networks.

After their identities were revealed, and in some cases, even their places of residence, if they were detained by the corresponding authorities, they would join the 14 people detained there on the day of the incidents that face charges such as illegal break-in, carrying a unregistered weapon and assault on police officers, among other indictments that are being prepared in federal courts.

Own FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has launched a campaign among the population to provide information that leads to more arrests after the fact than the agency itself, in the voice of its director, Christopher Wray, It has been classified as “acts of extremists.”

“Our agents and analysts have worked hard all night gathering evidence, sharing intelligence and working with federal prosecutors to press charges. The public can help by providing tips, information and videos of illegal activities at fbi.gov/USCapitol, ”Wray reported Thursday.

According to a review by MILLENNIUM some of these people, men and women alike, are accused of being part of the mob that entered the historic building, home to both the US House of Representatives and Senate, as well as being supporters of the still president Donald TrumpThey come from very different parts of the country and have the same number of professions.

Among the violent protesters who have not yet been arrested has been identified, for example, Derrick Evans, a Republican legislator from West Virginia, who during the riots recorded live videos of what he was doing and posted them on the internet.

The owner of a moving company, a men’s lingerie model, a car salesman, a dispatcher in a donut shop, several real estate agents, a stylist, an employee of a transnational company, an alleged specialist in naval intelligence and by crazy as it may sound, the ex-husband of singer Britney Spears is also on the list of suspected identified.

Their identities have become known through the images uploaded by themselves to social networks, or, thanks to the shots and photographs disseminated by the various media that covered the events and which have been taken up by activists and thousands of users who follow them.

For example, images were released of Jason Alexander who in 2004 was married to singer Britney Spears for 55 hours after celebrating the new year in Las Vegas.

According to the activists, it was Alexander’s cousin or cousin who betrayed him after posting a photograph of him on the Capitol on his social networks accompanied by the following message: “YES. I’m also processing the fact that my dumb cousin (who was also married to Britney Spears for 55 hours) is on Capitol Hill. I am related to a domestic terrorist ”.

Others like Zach Crandal, of whom no further details are known, but who identifies himself as the person who was captured by the press cameras eating a burrito in the plenary hall, personally accepted having participated in the violent outbreak.

“For all who ask, yes, I was in the Capitol building today,” he wrote in his Instagram stories and accompanied him with the photo, which went viral on Wednesday, of him eating during the riots.

One who has also raised controversy is a man identified by activists and who allegedly goes by the name of Eduardo “Nick” Alvear (or Alveares as the case may be) for being caught smoking marijuana in the rotunda of the Capitol during the riots.

In a very short video shared by the activists, he is seen wearing trousers with the flag of U.S as a pattern and a black cowboy hat. When he begins to exhale smoke, the recorder asks him “what kind of strange speck do you have there?” to which smiling and taking a step forward he only answers “Big Berry”, alluding to the question asked by his interlocutor.

The subject who went viral for entering the office of the president of the House of Representatives has also been identified, Nancy Pelosi, sit at your desk and steal your mail. By the way, hours after the brawl, Pelosi has been one of the toughest policies within the Democratic Party against Trump, which she has suggested should be removed from office before his term ends constitutionally in two weeks for his alleged responsibility in the acts.

According to social media users, the man who broke into the Representative’s office to steal her official mail goes by the name of Richard “Bigo” Barnett, and according to the details released by the activists lives in Gravette, Arkansas.

Likewise, Adam Johnson was identified, who presumably lives in Bradenton, Florida and who, allegedly, is the person who stole the wooden lectern, which has gold finishes, used by the Representatives and put it up for sale on the e-bay website. for $ 14,980.

One of the alleged terrorists who has not yet been able to be identified by the activists, but has caught the attention of the followers of the accounts, was seen in the images of the assault on the Capitol wearing a sweatshirt that refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp in the Nazi Germany.

The activists who have promoted this internet campaign to reveal the identities of the people who participated in the riots in Washington, where at least five people lost their lives, dozens were injured and multiple damages are reported in the historic building, have explained that all The information collected is directly shared with the authorities such as the FBI.

The accounts that were created on Instagram this Thursday to locate those responsible for these violent acts that occurred in the United States capital, which have shaken the political class of the neighboring country, are @homegrownterrorists (domestic terrorists) and @nametheterrorist (names the terrorist), which together have more than 200 thousand followers.

To the publications on the walls of both accounts must be added the dozens of stories in which they show photographs, videos and even messages to identify alleged participants in the violent events of Wednesday in Washington.

In one of these stories, they even conducted a survey among the thousands of followers they have where they asked directly if they considered that the events that occurred in the Capitol should be classified by the corresponding authorities as “terrorist acts.” In the end, public opinion was in favor of yes.

Throughout this Thursday, dozens of followers of the president Donald Trump, responsible for the excesses in Washington, would have been located, through this social network, inside or in the vicinity of the building that houses the two chambers of the US Congress. Some of whom were caught committing flagrant crimes on the spot, without having been held accountable for their actions before the courts so far.

So far it is unknown who or who manage these two accounts on Instagram which have the same description of their profile: “Exposing terrorists and MAGA trolls (Make American Great Again, President Donald Trump’s campaign phrase) that stormed the Capitol and assaulted democracy. Identify them. Arrest them ”.

In both accounts, which only follow each other, most of the publications correspond to photographs, name and, in cases where more details are known, even the place of residence of those involved in these violent acts, which on Thursday night add up to four protesters and a police officer killed.

After being identified, some of those named began to delete their accounts on social networks, put their private accounts or change their name to avoid being located by the authorities who have announced sentences of up to 10 years for those involved in the excesses on Wednesday.

Despite this, dozens of users linked them to far-right groups that support conspiracy theories from some of the darkest corners of the internet, such as the QAnon movement and the Proud Boys, as well as other white supremacist guilds, which are reminiscent the KKK, with fewer followers among its ranks than the first two.

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