Arrested after a fatal stabbing, a Utah man told police he brought a gun to Capitol on Jan 6

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Ryan J. Reilly
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“One of our concerns is that there seems to be a failure to prioritize fast arrests of violent people who assaulted officers or brought guns…There’s a real need to prioritize arrests of these violent perpetrators before anyone else is hurt or killed.”

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Arrested after a fatal stabbing, a Utah man told police he brought a gun to Capitol riot
“I was in the D.C. riots. You can look me up, OK?” John Emanuel Banuelos told police after he was arrested last July, according to newly obtained records.
12:21 PM · Feb 21, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/arrested-fatal-stabbing-utah-man-told-police-brought-gun-capitol-riot-rcna16351

WASHINGTON — A man accused in the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old in a Utah park last July told police he figured he was already on the FBI’s radar — for flashing a gun during the Capitol riot.

“I was in the D.C. riots. You can look me up, OK?” Salt Lake City police said John Emanuel Banuelos told them seven months ago, after he was arrested in Liberty Park after the July 4 killing. “I’m the one in the video with the gun right here,” he said, according to police, his description of the video appearing to match a viral Vice News footage that showed a man flashing a weapon in his waistband while outside the U.S. Capitol.

Online investigators whose work has contributed to the identification and arrest of multiple rioters told NBC News they first gave Banuelos' name to the FBI in February 2021.

Now, police records about the July 4 killing obtained by the NBC affiliate KSL in Utah and shared with NBC News may help solidify what citizen investigators say they told the FBI over a year ago: that Banuelos, 37, is the man seen with a gun strapped in his waistband in the middle of the crowd of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters rioting outside the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.

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[Shell_Seas]

1. I watched multiple Republican livestreams from January 5, and the morning of January 6,

I saw a lot of people conseal carrying.

I'm from Texas, I know what it looks like when a person has a gun in their waistband under their shirt or in their jacket pocket. And I saw a lot of guns. They just weren't caught.