undercover actors, working on behalf of the government in some capacity. an individual named rally runner, he s actually a st. louis cardinal s fan who ran around the stadium during home games there. back in 2021, on tucker carlson s fox news show, a january 6th lawyer, a right wing activist was saying this individual was clearly a law enforcement officer and saying this was an agent provocateur who was riling up the mob that day and causing them to do things they wouldn t otherwise do. lo and be hold, the rally runner was identified by online sleuths, and we finally have an arrest. this was an individual who was interviewed by the fbi immediately after january 6th but at the time the bureau was not fully aware of all of his activities that day, and now after all of this video has come out as a result of these january 6th cases, we can pretty much follow everything he does, and see him holding the police shield, charging the line, and really taking part in this
past, you know, three months now. this case originally began with opening arguments in january they had a little bit of tricks uptheir sleeve last week some of the online sleuths revealed new video evidence that showed one of these defendants, zachary real poin pointing what appeared to be pepper spray at officers that was something the fbi missed over their two-year course of investigation. online sleuths found that during the course of this trial that was something at the very last minute they were able to bring up, show on the stand, and the defendant zack real claimed that he could not recallwhethe or not he used pepper spray that day, not a definitive no for someone who s been very certain about a lot of his answers we ll see what the jury makes of that reasoning once they actually begin to take up this case after we see closing arguments for the rest of today, probably into tomorrow, and then the jury ultimately will likely get this case sometime on tuesday. ryan reilly, thank
down at an open source, right? so he says, i don t want to say the narrative, but i think there is the type of institutional arrogance that i don t get to rely on this guy s twitter feed for intel. we have our sources. we know what s going on. i think that is an ongoing problem, because you know, a lot of these cases are being solved and handed to them on a silver platter by these online sleuths, who just use all this open source information. and they are playing a really big role in this investigation. and i think that is something that the bureau is really gonna have to contend with, because you know, as a legacy of the organization, a lot of these special agents are really big on sources, and you know, having these connections, and having these inside looks. and the reality is, we are in a digital age right now. a lot of this is happening out in the open. and intelligence isn t something that is within the bureau, thought to be the career passing, necessarily. sometimes, they look d
and convicting these people. certainly, the cost for rioting at the capitol on january 6th continuing to have consequences for those who are engaged in the unlawful behavior. that s right, you know, we re very closely approaching 900 cases overall. people who have been arrested by the fbi. in connection with january 6th. we ve seen over 350 guilty pleas and i would caution there s hundreds more of these cases to go because the fbi has the names of additional people. a lot of that have come from online sleuths who have not yet been arrested. if you go to the fbi s website of who have alleged to have assaulted cops who still haven t been arrested. it s an overwhelming investigation for the fbi and doj. they just got a new batch of assistant u.s. attorneys come in to help out with the cases i think they re back to jump-start this a little bit.
case, or there s a public perception this is a slow walk. but in reality this is a relatively quick case for a federal investigation, although there are a lot of the creaks showing in the investigation going forward. you can do to the fbi website and find 350 people around who assaulted law enforcement or members of the media who are wanted by the fbi and still haven t been arrested. dozens of those individuals have been identified by online sleuths. one who comes to mind is a small business owner who is going to be buried in a lot of evidence that sleuths have gathered against him. there are dozens and dozens of these cases waiting for federal authorities to take action. these are mostly people who have actually were entering, were trespassing, were in the building, part of the actual riot, correct? correct, yes. so, the ones that the fbi are focused on are the people who assaulted law enforcement officers outside. those are the ones they really want the public s health with.