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BumRushDaShow

(129,005 posts)
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 06:11 PM Jan 31

FBI arrests Jan. 6 rioter IDed with help of facial recognition and a throwback Eagles hat

Source: NBC News

Jan. 31, 2024, 2:11 PM EST


WASHINGTON — A New Jersey man who wore a throwback Philadelphia Eagles beanie to the Jan. 6 riot was arrested by the FBI this week after online "sedition hunters" identified him with the help of facial recognition and Facebook photos from a 2020 family trip to the pumpkin patch.

Lee Giobbie, a 40-year-old financial adviser from Eastampton, New Jersey, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with several federal crimes, including felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. Giobbie, federal authorities alleged, yelled "move the gates!" over a bullhorn before the barricades on the east side of the Capitol were breached. He was later recorded at the front of the mob yelling "push, push, push, push!” as they broke through another police line and then helped breach the Capitol building, pushing through the east doors leading into the rotunda, authorities said.

"We need something to break the door down!" Giobbie said, according to the FBI, which said that open-source video also shows Giobbie pushing against a police shield during the chaos.

Giobbie, authorities said, was "one of the first rioters to enter" and "aggressively pushed his way through the Rotunda Door as police were actively trying to defend it." Inside the Capitol, Giobbie was briefly detained by an officer, and ultimately left the Capitol through a door on the west side of the building, according to the FBI and open-source evidence gathered by online sleuths. Giobbie did not immediately respond to a message left for him at his workplace.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-arrests-jan-6-rioter-facial-recognition-philadelphia-eagles-hat-rcna136589

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FBI arrests Jan. 6 rioter IDed with help of facial recognition and a throwback Eagles hat (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 31 OP
A financial advisor. So many of these insurrectionists had respectable careers. bucolic_frolic Jan 31 #1
Agreed. TwilightZone Jan 31 #2
They must have been on salary, not on commission. COL Mustard Jan 31 #18
They were getting theirs but they wanted more Marthe48 Jan 31 #3
I wonder if he has any good stock tips to throw our way. 3Hotdogs Jan 31 #10
Key word there is "had" Clash City Rocker Feb 1 #27
I can't be the only one to notice that the bygone Eagles logobore an unfortunate similarity to the Nazi Luftwaffe eagle. Harker Jan 31 #4
I still have my 30-year old throwback Eagles hat and 3/4 sleeve shirt BumRushDaShow Jan 31 #6
That's pretty sharp. Harker Jan 31 #13
"Down to ice hockey now." BumRushDaShow Jan 31 #15
I didn't see that coming. Harker Jan 31 #16
... BumRushDaShow Jan 31 #20
Imagine getting away with treason for 3 years duhneece Jan 31 #5
Yeah, poor baby. At the age of 40, I assume he has a family..nice going, MAGA Deuxcents Jan 31 #7
Yep, a colossal screw up...young kids and wife, job, mortgage. brush Feb 1 #28
Karma might be slow Fritz Walter Jan 31 #9
I wonder what the statute of limitations is? COL Mustard Jan 31 #19
Good work orangecrush Jan 31 #8
I have not been able to keep track, but, how many of these f'n idiots niyad Jan 31 #11
Everyone used to call the Black Bloc idiots Prairie Gates Jan 31 #22
Article says there were Facebook pics NJCher Feb 1 #24
Snicker. niyad Feb 1 #30
Another candidate for Fed. U. and a life time membership to the "Felon Club". republianmushroom Jan 31 #12
I'd like to see the online sleuths who have been finding these mofos get fierywoman Jan 31 #14
The largest (or at least most well-known) group is "Sedition Hunters" BumRushDaShow Jan 31 #17
So cool! fierywoman Jan 31 #21
Yes, they should be recognized. brush Feb 1 #29
No more pumpkin patches fer awhile Pas-de-Calais Feb 1 #23
His company profile and LinkedIn are gone. RedSpartan Feb 1 #25
Good. Another one bites the dust. brush Feb 1 #26
Let's give this treasonist some real time. No more soft featherbed sentences. NBachers Feb 1 #31
Eagles' fans have to riot somewhere Ishoutandscream2 Feb 1 #32
He was from Jersey BumRushDaShow Feb 1 #33

bucolic_frolic

(43,163 posts)
1. A financial advisor. So many of these insurrectionists had respectable careers.
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 06:20 PM
Jan 31

It's not like they weren't getting theirs.

TwilightZone

(25,471 posts)
2. Agreed.
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 06:24 PM
Jan 31

Seems like a lot of real estate agents and the like, too. Interesting that they could take the time off to go wreak havoc.

COL Mustard

(5,897 posts)
18. They must have been on salary, not on commission.
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 09:22 PM
Jan 31

Commissioned workers have a hard time taking time off, because time = money.

Marthe48

(16,960 posts)
3. They were getting theirs but they wanted more
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 06:49 PM
Jan 31

What the traitors are doing is throwing the game board off the table because they are ahead, want to win more and don't want to play by the rules.

3Hotdogs

(12,382 posts)
10. I wonder if he has any good stock tips to throw our way.
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 08:32 PM
Jan 31

Heinz Corporation, for after the November election?

Harker

(14,018 posts)
4. I can't be the only one to notice that the bygone Eagles logobore an unfortunate similarity to the Nazi Luftwaffe eagle.
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 07:31 PM
Jan 31

The football in its talons was a huge improvement over the swastika.

BumRushDaShow

(129,005 posts)
6. I still have my 30-year old throwback Eagles hat and 3/4 sleeve shirt
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 07:57 PM
Jan 31




They did wear the Kelly Green throwback jerseys a couple times the past season.

Harker

(14,018 posts)
13. That's pretty sharp.
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 08:46 PM
Jan 31

I'm a throwback, myself, and was a Bears fan when the 'C' on the helmet was solid white.

I haven't seen a game since Nick Foles, though.

Down to ice hockey now.

duhneece

(4,112 posts)
5. Imagine getting away with treason for 3 years
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 07:45 PM
Jan 31

But still having to look over your shoulder just in case ‘they’ finally come arrest you.
And they finally did.
My guess is that he’ll lose his job next, poor baby. 😂

brush

(53,778 posts)
28. Yep, a colossal screw up...young kids and wife, job, mortgage.
Thu Feb 1, 2024, 10:03 AM
Feb 1

Off to jail. Life interrupted, turned upside down and sideways.

Treason has consequences.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
9. Karma might be slow
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 08:14 PM
Jan 31

But when it happens, it can be a real bitch! Especially for loud-mouthed insurrectionists!

niyad

(113,306 posts)
11. I have not been able to keep track, but, how many of these f'n idiots
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 08:44 PM
Jan 31

have been identified because of distinctive clothing or headgear?? I mean, you wear a balaklava to conceal your face, but then wear a hat, or jacket, or patch, that only a few dozen, or even a few hundred, people have. dummmmmmmmmmm

One of my favourite descriptors in some novel I read was, "he had the sort of face one could not remember even while looking at it."

Prairie Gates

(1,010 posts)
22. Everyone used to call the Black Bloc idiots
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 09:54 PM
Jan 31

So so dumb, it turns out. Hard fought lessons learned in the struggle against US police forces. For many of these MAGAts, it was their first protest. They literally didn't know what they were doing.

Your number one piece of evidence that this wasn't Antifa? Anarchists, like Disco Stu, don't advertise.

NJCher

(35,675 posts)
24. Article says there were Facebook pics
Thu Feb 1, 2024, 09:41 AM
Feb 1

Of him at a pumpkin patch.

Reading between the lines, he was no doubt hanging out with Charlie Brown, waiting for the great pumpkin. The guy obviously has a penchant for big orange things. Can’t control himself.

republianmushroom

(13,594 posts)
12. Another candidate for Fed. U. and a life time membership to the "Felon Club".
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 08:45 PM
Jan 31

We shall see if you membership is approved by a jury.

fierywoman

(7,683 posts)
14. I'd like to see the online sleuths who have been finding these mofos get
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 08:50 PM
Jan 31

something like a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

BumRushDaShow

(129,005 posts)
17. The largest (or at least most well-known) group is "Sedition Hunters"
Wed Jan 31, 2024, 09:16 PM
Jan 31
https://seditionhunters.org/

They have been relentless and from what I read in a recent article, they have identified numerous perps some time ago and forwarded them, and those are still being investigated (generally they would need to be tracked down to their current residences/locations and those local offices have to work on the paperwork to arrest them, which obviously introduces delay).

RedSpartan

(1,693 posts)
25. His company profile and LinkedIn are gone.
Thu Feb 1, 2024, 09:50 AM
Feb 1

That was quick. Enjoy prison, traitor. He probably thinks Trump will pay for his defense and pardon him.

Edit: Found him on Pinterest. Wife and two young kids. And of COURSE he's a Christofascist:

https://www.pinterest.com/giobbie/

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