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5 Mar, 9 tweets, 5 min read
SCOOP: HuffPost spoke with the Florida man in an American flag jacket and a Florida for Trump hat who was caught on video assaulting cops at the Capitol with a fire extinguisher.

Story with @JessReports:

huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
Robert Palmer was identified with the help of “Amy,” who was part of a large crowdsourced effort to bring insurrectionists to justice.

She joined up with #SeditionHunters after she came down with COVID and had some time on her hands.
huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
Amy is just one of many volunteers working with #SeditionHunters and @capitolhunters, and she stressed the collaborative nature of the work. There are many more volunteers like her. huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
The story also illustrates just how (somewhat understandably) overwhelmed the FBI is sorting through literally hundreds of thousands of tips. #FloridaFlagJacket’s name was in their database weeks before the bureau made him #FBI246AFO. huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
"I’m just trying to live my life right now,” said the Florida man wanted for assaulting cops with a fire extinguisher at the Capitol. huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
“The more that I watched the more that I felt like I had lost control over what this country was supposed to be,” said @CountryOvParty. “Spending that time searching was a way to regain control of the situation for me.” huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
Robert Palmer’s Facebook feed looks precisely as you’d expect it would. huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
The day before he assaulted cops with a fire extinguisher, Robert Palmer was carrying around a sign about how much Trump supported cops. flickr.com/photos/4928398…
Meanwhile, Amy has another case on her agenda:

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6 Mar
"I’m just trying to live my life," an oblivious Robert Palmer said hours after the FBI blasted out his image to millions of followers on Twitter.

huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
The FBI also posted images of Robert Palmer on his preferred social media platform hours before he spoke to HuffPost. The photos were added to the FBI website last week, and multiple tips revealing his identity had been in the FBI's possession for a month. huffpost.com/entry/robert-p… Image
Here’s something we learned after publication: A month after assaulting cops at the Capitol and identifying himself by name, Robert Scott Palmer went to a Super Bowl celebration and identified himself to a reporter by name again, just to seal the deal. wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/sports/2021-02… ImageImage
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5 Mar
Internet sleuths helped the feds bust a Texas man who brawled with cops during the Capitol insurrection.

Shane Jenkins has "MAMA TRIED" tattooed across his neck. #SeditionHunters
Let’s check in on the Facebook page.
Timeline here:

- FBI gets a tip Jan. 18.
- FBI actually interviewed someone weeks later, on Feb. 12.
- Case filed March 2.

beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2050…
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3 Mar
Judge ruled today that Robert Sanford, who threw a fire extinguisher at police during the Capitol insurrection, can be released pretrial with a GPS monitor.
Here’s something I’d missed: an attorney for Robert Sanford — the man who was captured on video striking three police officers with a fire extinguisher — said in a filing over the weekend that Sanford had traveled to D.C. on a Turning Point USA bus.
Having looked at the Facebook pages of a lot of charged insurrectionists, can say with some authority that many charged insurrectionists were big fans of content produced by employees of Turning Point USA.
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2 Mar
Conservative leaders, civil rights and law enforcement organizations, and Sen. Chris Coons held a press conference in support of Vanita Gupta, Biden’s nominee for associate attorney general:
Marc Levin, the former director of Right on Crime, said Vanita Gupta "is exactly the kind of public servant that would thrive as associate attorney general.

National Sheriffs’ Association President David Mahoney said Gupta is "no stranger to law enforcement issues.”
And if you’ve read @aterkel on Sen. Coons’ role in dooming the Debo Adegbile nomination, you’ll obviously be interested in the role he’s playing here (along with the FOP, which has praised Gupta). huffpost.com/entry/fraterna…
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26 Feb
NEW: Meet Danny “DJ” Rodriguez, the MAGA hatted Trump fanatic who brawled with cops, smashed out a Capitol window, and appeared to tase D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Mike Fanone in the neck during the insurrection. Story with @JessReports: huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
The FBI received tips about Danny Rodriguez last month, he was publicly identified online, and he's connected to current Capitol defendants.

But it wasn't until hours after HuffPost's inquiry to the bureau that a key witness heard from an FBI agent.

huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
The team at @1600PennPooch — who correctly identified “Bullhorn Lady” last month — put together a video showing Rodriguez’s assault on Officer Fanone. Watch it here: huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
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23 Feb
Yet another Capitol insurrection tipster calling the feds on their worst Facebook friend. Previously: huffpost.com/entry/facebook…
"Witness 1 previously attended school with LORI VINSON and was friends with her on Facebook, but had not spoken with her in several years.” courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
"She further claimed she knew there was something going on related to the certification of the electoral votes on January 6, 2021, but did not know that Congress was 'in session' at that time…” 🤔
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