At this point, more than 1,100 people from across the country have been charged in cases related

to the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. The charges range from conspiracy to breaking

and entering to assaulting an officer. Finding all those people has meant sorting through

hours of images, from security footage to selfies.

And while Hollywood has trained us to believe that the FBI has tech capabilities bordering on wizardry, that's not exactly the case.

Maybe you think of people even sort of swiping in the air and moving magical boards.

Full minority report. Right. And the joke that I sort of make is like the air and moving magical boards. Full minority report.

Right.

And the joke that I sort of make is like, don't think CSI think the office.

Because I think that that's more the level of tech that we're sort of dealing with there.

Ryan Riley is a reporter on the Justice Bee.

He follows the work of FBI investigators.

But these days, he also follows the work of a new class of investigators, regular people whose work started online.

There was this photo, and what's funny about it now is that no one knows the origin of it, but it became this sort of thing that they all organized around because it was this awful photo of a cop

being dragged face down

down the stairs of the Capitol.

And one Twitter user just said,

okay, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to find these people.

And they ended up finding a lot of people

who were at the Capitol that day.

So much so that they've earned the nickname the Sedition

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