He said, quote, I didn`t do anything wrong, but he hung up when 'The Huffington Post' asked him about the fire extinguisher. But the reporters noticed he seemed to grow increasingly anxious as the call continued. He told reporters that the Biden administration was trying to, quote, vilify the patriots, end quote, who were in the riot. When reporters Ryan Reilly and Josselyn Cook at 'The Huffington Post' called him up, he appeared blissfully unaware that the FBI was looking for him and he confirmed it was him, Robert Scott Palmer of Clearwater, Florida, in the eye-catching jacket. It was online sleuths working from home, sifting through hours and hours of footage of the insurrection, who actually figured out who this guy was. The FBI had his face on a wanted poster but had not even identified him, even despite that jacket that you couldn`t miss. One of the astounding things about this video and that guy in it is that for more than two months after the insurrection, that guy was not arrested. And when the fire extinguisher runs out, he chucks it at them, at the police officers who are under siege. Moments like this one.Ī man in a very distinctive stars and stripes jacket with 'Trump' emblazoned in big letters on the back steps toward the capitol police who are guarding a doorway and unloads a fire extinguisher at them at close range. I think probably for all of us, amid the deluge of video and photographic documentation of the attack that emerged in the days and weeks afterwards, there are certain moments, certain images from that day that are burned into our minds. We`re coming up on nine months since the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.

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