Selfie-Snapping Rioters Leave FBI a Trail of Over 140,000 Images

  • Citizens and police sift online trove to find Capitol mob
  • Facial recognition software used by one police department

A protester screams "Freedom" inside the Senate chamber after the U.S. Capitol was breached. 

Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty Images

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The FBI arrested one man after a co-worker at a western Maryland restaurant reported seeing him in images of people assaulting the U.S. Capitol. A Texas man was charged after his ex-wife recognized him in a social-media video and called authorities, noting that it was a good picture.

Perhaps the most easily recognized interloper wore the same bearskin headdress with horns, and carried the same six-foot spear, as he did on his Facebook page. Prosecutors called it “distinctive attire” in charging documents.