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Apr 2, 2021, 35 tweets

#SeditionHunters

1/ Thread on the West Plaza #MediaTower

FLIR Thermal Imaging Monocular: these aren't cheap.

Was someone planning on staying the night?

#CapitolFLIR

Video h/t @TweedleRiot
At 21:56, left edge:

2/
⬇️ Temp hashtag #TowerGlower (at 23:48).

Better view of his finger tattoos.

Anyone know of other sightings of #CapitolFLIR at the insurrection?

The #MediaTower was an excellent vantage point.
Thermal monoculars can also be used in daylight.
Video:
flir.com/products/scout…

3/
TL: #TowerGlower at the front of the #MediaTower a few mins later in the video, watching the police line battle.
Monocular's strap is hanging down.
Note coat sleeve & cuff, dark hood, blue hat, black bag & camera with lens hanging by hip

TR, BL: Green stripe of #CapitolFLIR
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4/
Brief appearance by 268-AFO #LittleManSprayer climbing up to the #MediaTower middle level from the front

He carries a #Sedition3P 1776 flag w/ a George Washington quote

Appears to be encouraged:
Hey, you made it up here. C'mon up.
What happened?
15:50

5/
#BlackHatStripedBuff on the #MediaTower

Left photo: at 29:25
Others: around 31, watching the police retreat into the Lower Western Terrace Tunnel Entrance
His black hood is up for part of the time at the front rail
He films the police retreat at 30:24

6/
4 mins earlier #BlackGlove805 climbs down the ladder onto the front platform of the #MediaTower, wedges himself in at the railing, & leans over to look down at the West Plaza action.

ID'd on Tower in a 1:27 pm Parler video by @Nabert94366848

At 25:01

#Sedition3P
7/
A.K.A. #101AFO, #BlackGlove805 was also ID'd on the #MediaTower in the Full Footage: Patriots Storm video by @letsnotmakeitp1 & by @KingCalle3:

Screenshot: #BlackGlove805 with a young man who later ends up on the Western Terrace as well.


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8/ Best known for his Tunnel attack role, #BlackGlove805 is also seen #Inciting at the West Plaza police line, declaring war on the police:

"You want war? We got war! 1776!"

h/t @CoryCullington


He also appears Fire-Extinguisher-Curious
h/t @h_Sanatorium

@capitolhunters @DianthaSol @AbigaelAndi @FixThisNow2021 @PotrzebieSystem @remlooker
@NielsenVibeke @MalagaBridget @BarrenCreek

#CapitolAF

9/
The far-right white nationalist/
white supremacist America First flag
being flown from the #MediaTower
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10/ Corrected: Appearance by > 286-AFO
#LittleManSprayer climbing to the #MediaTower
middle level from front

He carries a #Sedition3P 1776 flag
with a G. Washington quote

Appears to be encouraged:
Hey, you made it up here. C'mon up.
What happened?
15:50

@SeditionHunters @Nightvi17337331 @IwriteRosie @TwittsnTweets @erica1933
⬆️
11/ H/t @capitolhunters for noticing that
#FBI286 may be
#LittleManSprayer AND
#GreenFlagNGate,
who has a #Sedition3P 1776 flag
w/ a Washington quote
Note blue at neck, MOLLE pack

12/
#BlackGlove805 talking to #NWScaffoldCommander, top of #MediaTower

Police are spraying rioters during south end push back

Behind the woman filming at 24:13

#NineLineBlue gets pulled over police line

25:02 #BlackGlove805 climbs down
into tweet 6 ⬆️

13/
Update on #FBI286

#LittleManSprayer is now the sole hashtag:
#GreenFlagNGate retired for the same insurrectionist detailed in tweets 10/11

Who greeted him on the #MediaTower?⬆️

Does he know fellow #Sedition3P #BlackGlove805?

Spraying; similar flag

14/
Groups on #MediaTower:
#Sedition3P
#CapitolAF America First
Proud Boys
Others?

Who else significant is there & do thy interact?
Many are "tourists" on Tower

~12:59 pm: 2nd person to climb up has an orange Proud Boy hat, huge pack

Gadsden flag 3rd up

15/
#SeditionBullhorn #Inciting #NWScaffoldCommander & #TowermanMale19 (whose speech begins ~1:04 pm) are among the 1st to climb the #MediaTower

Were either part of a group? ⬆️

#TowermanMale19 leaves early
Where do they go?

Thread on their interaction:

#SeditionHunters
16/
#TowerCamoComms is on the #MediaTower for a long time

He has intense focus, coordinating on his phone or filming throughout

When does he arrive & leave & where does he go?

Does he interact w/ others from ID'd groups? ⬆️

Here he is by #NWScaffoldCommander

17/
#TowerCamoComms uses a #SeditionBullhorn on the #MediaTower at one point; it looks like the one used by #NWScaffoldCommander & possibly by #TowermanMale19 for his speech: see 15 ⬆️

3rd photo: #TowerCamoComms standing on the railing & #BlackHatStripedBuff, lower left corner
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18/
Great #TowerCamoComms photos from @AlHunt08657198.
Links, more photos in thread

He's always on his phone

Who is he with on his way to the Capitol?

@erica1933 points out "Always wear your gloves" on his bag reminds linemen to avoid electric shock


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19/
Proud Boys:
#BruhPB standing on the lowest #MediaTower platform, w/ the 2nd & 3rd to climb up, sitting;
see 14 ⬆️
ID h/t @twittntweets

#SleepyPB spends time on the higher platforms.
Here he is w/ live streamer #BlackHatStripedBuff (5&6 ⬆️) who films in tunnel & is extracted

20/
Wide variety on #MediaTower
From left:
#VIPUncleSam
#NWScaffoldCommander
#CapitolAF America First flag
#SleepyPB
Tan coat guy may be the one who greets
#LittleManSprayer when he climbs up (10⬆️)
"Truth with Es" woman who films (1-12)
#TowerGlower (1-3)
gettyimages.com/detail/news-ph…

21/ Outstanding video of #TowerCamoComms from a source of @elspethreeve, flagged by @jocejocejoe

"It's now or never....If they don't hear our voices today, they'll hear our muskets tomorrow"

#NWScaffoldCommander heard in the background: "Move forward!"

22/ See ⬆️ 16-18 on #TowerCamoComms
More from @elspethreeve's source
h/t @jocejocejoe

"Fireworks! Nothing like 4th of July. Our house"

NWSC: "Push forward, we need help!"
#BlackGlove805 with some choice language;
his gloves seen gesturing (⬆️ 6-8, 12)

23/
#TowerCamoComms on a smoke break at the end of a long day of insurrectioning from the #MediaTower

He shares a lighter with a man, maybe a stranger.

Still intensely looking around.

Most appear to be tourists late in the day

Video h/t @jocejocejoe


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24/
#TowerCamoComms: one of the 1st up #MediaTower (top left)
#NWScaffoldCommander
#TowermanMale19 in the back (tan coat, ball cap) before his speech
& the friend of #LittleManSprayer (earflap hat on right; see⬆️10, 20)
Bearded guy mostly waves a Betsy Ross flag throughout siege

25/
#TowerGlower's mask is down for a moment.
#TowerCamoComms films while standing on the railing of the #MediaTower.
The friend of #LittlemanSprayer is directly below #TowerCamoComms.
⬆️ Source: the title of the RMG News video is on the 1st screenshot⬇️
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26/
#TowerCamoComms appears to have body armor under his shirt. H/t @zlueth1

Last photo: the guy next to TCC in the #SeditionBullhorn photo, with his hood up; he's also early up the #MediaTower and holds a blue flag
(tweet 24 ⬆️ middle of top level).
He leaves earlier than TCC
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27/
The friend of #TowerCamoComms happens to have a tattoo on his left hand, which is odd because #TowerGlower has finger tattoos (tweets 1 & 2 above). Such a weird insurrection. In the first screenshot the friend also has sunglasses. Last: his right hand does not have a tattoo

28/
12:59 pm
SW Scaffold climber tackled
1st Tower climber already on top & several have climbed front
Friend of #LittleManSprayer reaches top, greets #1.
#TowerCamoComms climbs up over the front
#TowermanMale19
TCC's friend with flag
#NWScaffoldCommander

29/
Once the Betsy Ross flag waver guy climbs to the top level (top left), it's the group of 7 people seen in the clip in tweet 24⬆️
Top right: 1st to person to climb the Tower successfully (3:51)
A min earlier #TowerPup tries to climb but gets chased down
facebook.com/wysiwygtvDOTco…

@TwittsnTweets @erica1933
30/
@SansaStark525 figured out that
#SleepyPB is also #BlueJacketTunnelRescue,
who is seen on the #MediaTower with #BlackHatStripedBuff ⬇️
(More on BHSB: tweets 5, 17 above)

BHSB and BJTR are later extracted from the Tunnel, along w/ #WhiteDeathHoodie

31/
⬆️Police bodycam footage
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

Questions
Did Proud Boy #SleepyPB know fringe live streamer #BlackHatStripedBuff before 1/6?
If so, did they have a plan to go to the Lower Western Terrace?
Either way, did they go up there together?
flickr.com/photos/perspec…

32/
Did the Villain Report guy(s) go up to the Lower Western Terrace with #BlackHatStripedBuff?

Seen in photo: the guy with the beard & GoPro stick on the left edge; #SleepyPB is also seen.
H/t @Zendition6 and @AlHunt08657198

data.emergent.news/wp-content/upl…

33/
How much did they interact or plan?

Early up the #MediaTower:
#TowerCamoComms
#Inciter #NWScaffoldCommander
#TowermanMale19
& several Proud Boys

Both Tower & Tunnel:
#Sedition3P #BlackGlove805
#SleepyPB
#BlackHatStripedBuff/Villain Report

Flags:
Gadsden
3P
Trump
#CapitolAF

34/
#HonkyTonkTraitor is #TowerCamoComms' tattooed friend (⬆️ 26 & 27).

He is both on the #MediaTower and around the Tunnel on the Lower Western Terrace.

He raises a blue Trump flag after he's the 5th person up to the top Tower level.

Tattoo: last photo
jan6attack.com/individuals/ho…

35/
1 & 1:01 pm Parler videos show interactions:

#TowerCamoComms scales the front of the tower structure & joins the 1st 2 up on the top.
#TowermanMale19 climbs w/ his bullhorn, greets #LittleManSprayer's friend & they raise fists.
#HonkyTonkTraitor w/ flag.
#NWScaffoldCommander

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