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Federal authorities arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on Tuesday after they used facial recognition programs to find an image of him on his girlfriends Instagram page.
Stephen Chase Randolph, federal authorities say, knocked over a U.S. Capitol Police officer manning the barriers at the building, causing [Officer-1]s head to hit the stairs behind her, resulting in a loss of consciousness. He then continued to assault two other USCP officers by physically pushing, shoving, grabbing, and generally resisting the officers and interfering with their official duties, the federal officials said.
The FBI released images of Randolph in late January, designating him as #168-AFO because he was wanted for assault on federal officers. Members of the loosely affiliated sleuthing group @SeditionHunters dubbed the suspect as #GrayCarharttHat, based on his knit cap, and published additional images of him.
At some point, the FBI ran an image of Randolph through an open source facial comparison tool that had been known to provide reliable results in the past.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/facial-recognition-capitol-defendants-220720678.html
catbyte
(34,367 posts)Best_man23
(4,897 posts)To paraphrase someone: you betcha they're serious.
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)Rest assured you will be hunted down and charged for your insurrectionist behavior.
ONE BY ONE, they will find you!
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm okay with one, but not the other.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,108 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,743 posts)"on his girlfriends Instagram page" - Thanks, sweetie.