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Feds Track Down Capitol Rioter Using Facial Recognition on Social Media Posts

Lucas Nolan 21 Apr 2021

Federal authorities reportedly arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot after using facial recognition programs to find an image of the suspect on his girlfriend’s Instagram page. The arrest represents the first time that facial recognition was used to identify a suspect from the Capitol riot rather than to confirm the identity of an existing suspect.

The Huffington Post reports that federal authorities have arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot. The suspect is believed to be a man named Stephen Chase Randolph who was arrested in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, on Tuesday after authorities used facial recognition technology to find an image of him on his girlfriend’s Instagram page.

Authorities allege that Randolph knocked over a U.S. Capitol Police officer at barriers surrounding the building, “causing [Officer-1]’s head to hit the stairs behind her, resulting in a loss of consciousness.” Federal officials further allege that Randolph then “continued to assault two other USCP officers by physically pushing, shoving, grabbing, and generally resisting the officers and interfering with their official duties.”

The FBI released a number of images of Randolph in late January designating him as #168-AFO announcing he was wanted for “assault on federal officers.” The FBI later ran an image of Randolph through an “open source facial comparison tool” that had been “known to provide reliable results in the past.”

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