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Source: Washington Post

A man sent his girlfriend’s brother a selfie while storming the Capitol, officials say. The brother is a federal agent.



Thomas Fee texted this image of himself in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6. to his girlfriend’s brother, who is a federal agent. (Courtesy of the Department of Justice)

By
Jaclyn Peiser
Jan. 20, 2021 at 3:57 a.m. CST

When Thomas Fee got a text on Jan. 6 from his girlfriend’s brother asking if he was in Washington, he responded with a selfie inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda as dozens of others who had just stormed the building waved flags behind him, federal officials said.

In one message, Fee wrote he was “at the tip of the spear,” according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday.

But Fee’s girlfriend’s brother wasn’t asking out of simple curiosity — he is a special agent with the State Department. The agent, who isn’t identified in court documents, later turned the evidence over to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Fee, a recently retired New York firefighter with a history of racist complaints, surrendered in Queens on Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District told the New York Post. He is charged with unlawful entry of the Capitol and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/20/capitol-rioter-thomas-fee-text/