WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.250 a year after the US capitol insurrection. A community 00:00:04.250 --> 00:00:09.400 of mostly faceless online sleuths has been poring through images 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:13.609 and videos, mind from social media. Their mission 00:00:13.830 --> 00:00:19.460 to identify rioters like Carhartt, cowpoke and Cinder Margarette 00:00:19.460 --> 00:00:22.000 Ella. What happened after January six is that the 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:25.760 world I saw how many people had some skills that 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:27.890 they could point to this problem. For example, 00:00:27.899 --> 00:00:31.129 there are people who do nothing but think about retro 00:00:31.129 --> 00:00:32.869 t shirts. Well it turns out there was a 00:00:32.869 --> 00:00:34.850 way for somebody like that to help. Around january 00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:36.899 six. There are sneaker heads. People who are 00:00:36.899 --> 00:00:39.899 obsessed with sneakers turns out those people had a way 00:00:39.909 --> 00:00:42.450 to help. That's john scott rail tonight. A 00:00:42.450 --> 00:00:47.579 prominent researcher who spurred crowdsourced efforts on twitter. The 00:00:47.579 --> 00:00:52.009 volunteers often shared their findings with the FBI. There's 00:00:52.020 --> 00:00:55.759 there's poetic justice in the fact that some of the 00:00:55.770 --> 00:00:58.960 worst of the worst the far writers who were at 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:03.079 the capitol got identified by people of color and people 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.519 from other minority groups and people who they have historically 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:08.189 targeted in the past. He says much of this 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:12.349 open source work on suspects comes from people sitting in 00:01:12.349 --> 00:01:15.489 their homes, often people who have lost their jobs 00:01:15.489 --> 00:01:19.629 or loved ones in the pandemic. Some are in 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:22.180 other countries and see the U. S. As 00:01:22.180 --> 00:01:26.090 a beacon of democracy and most like forrest Rogers prefer 00:01:26.090 --> 00:01:30.099 some anonymity. There are people that we have identified 00:01:30.099 --> 00:01:32.219 in january that still have not been arrested. He's 00:01:32.219 --> 00:01:34.500 part of a small group called Deep State dogs. 00:01:34.620 --> 00:01:38.640 Earlier this year. He identified a rioter who allegedly 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.390 tasered a police officer officer Finnegan was on the national 00:01:42.390 --> 00:01:46.370 television and mentioned that he had been Tasered. So 00:01:46.370 --> 00:01:49.049 I went back and single framed the footage and then 00:01:49.060 --> 00:01:52.819 in a period of one second in slow motion and 00:01:52.819 --> 00:01:55.530 in single framing it, I was able to see 00:01:55.530 --> 00:01:59.359 the suspect reach over with his right arm and taser 00:01:59.370 --> 00:02:00.969 officer flanagan on the left side of his neck. 00:02:00.980 --> 00:02:07.329 Federal court documents show the FBI has repeatedly cited research 00:02:07.329 --> 00:02:10.849 from another group of data detectives called the sedition hunters 00:02:12.139 --> 00:02:15.719 . Extremism expert Heidi by Rick says law enforcement agencies 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:19.479 could not have done the work without them. There's 00:02:19.490 --> 00:02:23.270 absolutely no way that the FBI on its own or 00:02:23.270 --> 00:02:27.699 even other federal law enforcement agencies could have collected and 00:02:27.699 --> 00:02:31.800 sifted through the amount of information that was produced on 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:36.250 video around that event. But they don't seek recognition 00:02:36.250 --> 00:02:39.349 for those efforts. The kind of blowback that you're 00:02:39.349 --> 00:02:42.889 going to get online is massive. You will be 00:02:42.889 --> 00:02:45.500 targeted for attack if you are found to be one 00:02:45.500 --> 00:02:47.639 of the people helping the FBI arrest folks. For 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:53.069 january 6th, federal attorneys say more than 725 people 00:02:53.069 --> 00:02:58.039 have now been arrested. But the FBI still seeks 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:04.060 help in identifying more, including at least 250 insurrectionists 00:03:04.069 --> 00:03:07.939 who they say assaulted police officers. I want to 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:10.060 be clear, we've got hundreds more investigation is still 00:03:10.060 --> 00:03:15.259 ongoing. The challenge today for volunteers behind the screen 00:03:15.539 --> 00:03:20.639 , unmasking rioters whose faces never showed or barely visible 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.090 in images. They don't know just who and how 00:03:23.090 --> 00:03:29.000 much the FBI has, but they'll keep digitally digging 00:03:30.930 --> 00:03:32.139 And chance. This is also a way for these 00:03:32.139 --> 00:03:37.509 online sleuths to push back on any narratives that minimize 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.689 the violence or intent that we saw when people stormed 00:03:40.689 --> 00:03:46.219 the Capitol on January six. Meanwhile, extremism experts 00:03:46.229 --> 00:03:50.879 tell me that they're concerned that this insurrectionist ideology is 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:54.330 actually growing in the US. Sasha. These groups 00:03:54.330 --> 00:03:58.419 have clearly helped in some cases. But is there 00:03:58.419 --> 00:04:01.159 ever any concern about them identifying maybe the wrong person 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:05.280 or flooding authorities with false leads? Well, of 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.840 course, and the FBI has said that it has 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.259 received hundreds of thousands of tips. Now we can't 00:04:12.270 --> 00:04:15.110 be sure how many of them were fruitful in the 00:04:15.110 --> 00:04:17.730 leads that they provided. But because the FBI has 00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:20.959 continued to ask for these tips, it's clear that 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.910 they see the value in doing so. And look 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.149 , these agents know how to parse fact from fiction 00:04:28.149 --> 00:04:30.350 and they have the resources to do it. Meanwhile 00:04:30.350 --> 00:04:34.230 , these researchers have gotten better over time. In 00:04:34.230 --> 00:04:38.339 the early days, some of them were actually posting 00:04:38.339 --> 00:04:41.319 the name of the suspects on social media. You 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:44.649 can see how problematic that could be. Now they 00:04:44.660 --> 00:04:46.610 tend to work more quietly. They shared their research 00:04:46.610 --> 00:04:50.279 with journalists and they also give that information to the 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:54.180 FBI. Some of them have gotten so good that 00:04:54.180 --> 00:04:58.209 they're actually getting jobs as journalists and professional researchers. 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.110 Really wow. Alright, so we know from Merrick 00:05:01.110 --> 00:05:03.529 garland today that he said this is far from over 00:05:03.529 --> 00:05:05.389 . It takes as long as it takes. The 00:05:05.389 --> 00:05:09.420 FBI is continuing to ask the public for more tips 00:05:09.939 --> 00:05:11.519 . Do we know? Are they trying anything else 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:15.709 to track people down? Well, we're not just 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.230 talking about undercover agents here. We know that the 00:05:18.230 --> 00:05:24.699 FBI is using sophisticated facial recognition technology to get through 00:05:24.699 --> 00:05:28.480 this massive amount of visual data. And we learn 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:30.839 more from federal court documents. Uh, there are 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:34.180 search warrants. There are geo fence warrants that you 00:05:34.180 --> 00:05:39.449 can read about and these are basically tapping into a 00:05:39.459 --> 00:05:43.279 virtual perimeter of the capitol, which allows them to 00:05:43.290 --> 00:05:46.899 go to google and get suspects cellular data to see 00:05:46.910 --> 00:05:49.470 who is where and at what time. They've also 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:55.250 used warrants to use people's fingerprints to get into their 00:05:55.250 --> 00:05:59.550 cell phones to gather more evidence. Chance. Sasha 00:05:59.550 --> 00:06:00.660 Ingber is still a lot of work for investigators to 00:06:00.660 --> 00:06:03.050 do a year after the insurrection.