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George II

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Thu Jan 14, 2021, 01:08 PM Jan 2021

A man who carried a Confederate flag into the Capitol has been arrested.

A man who was photographed holding a Confederate battle flag inside the U.S. Capitol last week during the riot was arrested Thursday in Delaware, two law enforcement officials said. The man, Kevin Seefried, was wanted by the F.B.I., which had sought help from the public to identify him and had widely circulated a dispatch plastered with images of him.

In a bulletin, the agency said that it was looking for assistance to identify individuals “who made unlawful entry” into the Capitol, including the man with the Confederate flag, now identified by The New York Times as Mr. Seefried.

The F.B.I. had received more than 126,000 photographic and video tips as of earlier this week, as agents also scrubbed airline passenger manifests and video of air travelers to and from Washington to find potential suspects. The top federal prosecutor in Washington said this week that he expected the number of people charged with crimes tied to the Capitol riot to rise into the hundreds.

On Wednesday, federal agents made more arrests in New York, Maryland, Texas and Florida, among them a firefighter from the town of Sanford, near Orlando.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/Kevin-Seefried-arrested.html
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A man who carried a Confederate flag into the Capitol has been arrested. (Original Post) George II Jan 2021 OP
Yay! soothsayer Jan 2021 #1
+1 NCjack Jan 2021 #4
Already made it to the Home page - DURHAM D Jan 2021 #2
yay. the confederate flag should be banned forever. AllaN01Bear Jan 2021 #3
Welcome to the real world magat. mobeau69 Jan 2021 #5
Germany banned Third Reich flags and Nazi propaganda symbols. Irish_Dem Jan 2021 #6
Yes soothsayer Jan 2021 #7
Yes! UTUSN Jan 2021 #8
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