They published on social networks photos and videos of the assault on the Capitol: this is how the FBI is identifying them

By Kevin Collier - NBC News

They posted on Facebook that they were going to break into the Capitol.

They broadcast live videos on YouTube and made

Instagram

stories

of their rampaging companions when they walked in.

The FBI continues to search for and identify people this Sunday who participated in the assault on the headquarters of Congress on January 6 to try to stop the inauguration of the president-elect, Joe Biden.

And it has found that several of them appear to have openly admitted the crimes they committed on social media, according to a review of court documents.

The Capitol Police have received strong criticism for having shown a lack of preparation in containing the assailants, who outnumbered their troops and entered the headquarters of Congress, which has left the role of locating many in the hands of the FBI. of them

after they had already left the scene

.

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But while this federal police has many legal and technical resources at its disposal to operate - for example, to ask telecommunications and technology companies to provide cell phone data to see who was in a certain area at a specific time - it has not it has been so necessary until now to use them to attribute charges to various people involved.

Many acts of this day were documented by journalists and then those responsible could be easily identified online.

Adam Johnson, for example, was

charged with theft of government property

after a Getty photo of him smiling as he carried the lectern to Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi went viral. 

Supporters of President Donald Trump in the area of ​​the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, during the assault on the Capitol last week.

AFP via Getty Images

The man also posted that day a photo on his Facebook account where he himself appears with the same clothes and a hat that distinguishes him, in front of a sign that says "Suspended tourist tours."

Johnson titled the photo "No." 

Derrick Evans, a self-proclaimed conservative activist who was recently elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates but resigned before his first session began, went live yelling, 

"Derrick Evans is on Capitol Hill!"

.

Evans removed the video, but a local reporter had already recorded it and soon tweeted it. 

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There were many selfies taken that day on the Capitol, and several of the people who took them were charged with knowingly entering restricted areas or disturbing public order in the Capitol area. 

Kash Lee Hill posted on Facebook a photo, later deleted, showing him standing on a pedestal next to a statue of Charles Aycock, a former North Carolina governor and white supremacist.

The state has tried to replace the statue with one of the late televangelist Billy Graham.

"The day we let the Traitors who constantly push division in OUR country know that we are done with their games," read the text used to accompany the image.

They reinforce the security of the Capitol: barriers prevent approach and the National Guard guards the area

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Jenny Cudd, who wore a flag of President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill like a cape,

showed on Facebook Live what it was like to be part of the crowd

that made their way into the building.

"We just pushed and shoved, and we did it," Cudd said, then added, "We broke down the door to Nancy Pelosi's office." 

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A small army of detectives in the network is actively working, through images from January 6, to identify the rioters.

And the FBI, which is still soliciting suggestions from the public, has received more than 126,000 suggestions from digital media about the incident, an agency spokesman said Thursday. 

But that has not been necessary for some suspects.

Many showed up at the Capitol

in costumes that made them easily recognizable

.

Jacob Chansley, accused of six counts, stood out in the photos for having the American flag painted on his face, a naked torso and a fur headdress with horns. 

Jacob Anthony Chansley (the man in a horned headdress) with other rioters, inside the Capitol on January 6.

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Researchers and journalists covering extremist movements already knew him well because that was his 'QAnon shaman' outfit at Trump rallies and protests against Black Lives Matter. 

Robert Packer surprised many Americans with his black sweatshirt that was written 'Camp Auschwitz', but that was not the first time he had worn it.

Court documents show that someone related to a store in his city, Newport News, Virginia,

recognized him as a regular customer

. 

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That person gave the FBI surveillance camera footage from the store in which Packer appears with that same hoodie, and his car is also seen.

Olympic medalist swimmer Klete Keller, accused of knowingly entering or staying in a restricted area, wore his US team jacket on Capitol Hill. 

The Associated Press news agency estimates that

so far more than 125 people have been arrested in connection with the assault on the Capitol. 

With information from AP.