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We Added Some Details to Getty Photos of Those Terrorists Who Stormed the U.S. Capitol

Gotta know thy enemy!

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The Capitol Police might have gone easy on the domestic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, but the internet gladly stepped in. On Reddit, Twitter, and elsewhere, folks have been archiving the terrorists’ livestreams to identify them — and to make sure that the evidence lives on even after the idiots realize they’ve incriminated themselves in a federal crime and try to delete their uploads. Noble work? Damn skippy. And to do our part, we thought we’d help by identifying the folks captured in many of the newswire photographs that came from the Stop the Steal rally and the ensuing insurrection.

You know the flicks we’re talking about: the guy with the Confederate flag walking through the hall; the yahoo with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk; the woman getting escorted carefully down the steps by a cop like she hasn’t just participated in some action-movie-level bullshit. See, most of the captions that come with those photos are minimally descriptive: “Thousands of Donald Trump supporters storm the United States Capitol building following a Stop the Steal rally on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.” The world needs to know who these people are, so we went digging. Are these really their names and circumstances…