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

[BumRushDaShow]

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

[bucolic_frolic]

1. A financial advisor. So many of these insurrectionists had respectable careers.

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

[TwilightZone]

2. Agreed.

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]

18. They must have been on salary, not on commission.

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

[Marthe48]

3. They were getting theirs but they wanted more

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]

10. I wonder if he has any good stock tips to throw our way.

Heinz Corporation, for after the November election?

[Clash City Rocker]

27. Key word there is "had"

Let’s see who wants to hire them when the truth comes out.

[Harker]

4. I can't be the only one to notice that the bygone Eagles logobore an unfortunate similarity to the Nazi Luftwaffe eagle.

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

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I still have my 30-year old throwback Eagles hat and 3/4 sleeve shirt

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

[Harker]

13. That's pretty sharp.

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.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. "Down to ice hockey now."

[Harker]

16. I didn't see that coming.

Nice moves!

[BumRushDaShow]

20. ...

[duhneece]

5. Imagine getting away with treason for 3 years

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. 😂

[Deuxcents]

7. Yeah, poor baby. At the age of 40, I assume he has a family..nice going, MAGA

[brush]

28. Yep, a colossal screw up...young kids and wife, job, mortgage.

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

Treason has consequences.

[Fritz Walter]

9. Karma might be slow

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

[COL Mustard]

19. I wonder what the statute of limitations is?

I hope they arrest all these bastards before it expires.

[orangecrush]

8. Good work

Enjoy prison!

[niyad]

11. I have not been able to keep track, but, how many of these f'n idiots

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]

22. Everyone used to call the Black Bloc idiots

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]

24. Article says there were Facebook pics

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.

[niyad]

30. Snicker.

[republianmushroom]

12. Another candidate for Fed. U. and a life time membership to the "Felon Club".

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

[fierywoman]

14. I'd like to see the online sleuths who have been finding these mofos get

something like a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. The largest (or at least most well-known) group is "Sedition Hunters"

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).

[fierywoman]

21. So cool!

[brush]

29. Yes, they should be recognized.

Love the term "online sleuths." Just rolls off the tongue.

[Pas-de-Calais]

23. No more pumpkin patches fer awhile

[RedSpartan]

25. His company profile and LinkedIn are gone.

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/

[brush]

26. Good. Another one bites the dust.

After all this time I know he thought he was scott-free.

[NBachers]

31. Let's give this treasonist some real time. No more soft featherbed sentences.

[Ishoutandscream2]

32. Eagles' fans have to riot somewhere

He found the perfect opportunity on Jan 6.

[BumRushDaShow]

33. He was from Jersey

so not a true "Fluffian".