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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Apr 2, 2021, 10:31 AM Apr 2021

How America's surveillance networks helped the FBI catch the Capitol mob

Drew Harwell, Craig Timberg 1 hr ago

Debra Maimone pulled down her American flag mask for a moment on Jan. 6 and gazed at the unruly mob of supporters of President Donald Trump overrunning the U.S. Capitol. “Put your mask on,” warned her fiance, as the couple stood beneath an unblinking array of surveillance cameras. “I don’t want them to see you.”

It was too late.

That scene, recorded in a cellphone video Maimone posted to the social media site Parler, helped FBI agents identify the Pittsburgh-area couple and pinpoint their location inside the Capitol, FBI agents said in a federal criminal complaint filed before Maimone’s arrest last month.

Video cameras mounted throughout the complex also captured the pair from 10 different angles, the complaint says, as they allegedly stormed the halls of Congress, rummaged through a police bag and made off with protective equipment that Senate officials kept on hand in case of a chemical attack.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-america-s-surveillance-networks-helped-the-fbi-catch-the-capitol-mob/ar-BB1feLNA

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How America's surveillance networks helped the FBI catch the Capitol mob (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2021 OP
Must've been the microchips inserted when these people were vaccinated Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 #1
huh??? msfiddlestix Apr 2021 #2

msfiddlestix

(7,265 posts)
2. huh???
Sun Apr 4, 2021, 04:20 PM
Apr 2021

Don't these writers understand that the "video cameras" that captured the mob were Cable News crews? As well as a number of cell phone cameras, as well as etc etc.

The FBI could have/should have captured the mob in real time, before they waltzed away without a care in the world.

Why the hell didn't they?

Yeah, security cameras no doubt helped. but man, they didn't have to wait to process those before 'catching' the mob.

smh

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