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TexasTowelie

(116,516 posts)
Wed Jun 8, 2022, 12:04 AM Jun 2022

Feds Nab Texas Brothers Who Tried to 'Unsend' Messages Bragging About Capitol Riot

While the concept of “brotherly love” is usually confined to roughhousing on the couch, the feds allege a pair of Texas siblings extended it to the realm of federal crimes when they attended the Capitol riot together, assaulted police officers, stole a shield, then tried to belatedly cover it all up by deleting incriminating messages.

And Brian and Adam Jackson, from Katy, got more than just a dinner table scolding for it on Tuesday when they were arrested—more than 17 months after the failed insurrection—and charged with several offenses, including assaulting law enforcement officials.

According to a press release from the Department of Justice, Brian Jackson, 47, charged at a line of officers with an American flag pole, while his brother Adam, aged 42, threw a large object at the same officers and surged toward them with what appeared to be a stolen Capitol Police riot shield.

A criminal complaint accompanying the press release includes several pages of detail about incriminating evidence left on the brothers’ social media pages.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-brothers-brian-and-adam-jackson-arrested-after-trying-to-unsend-messages-bragging-about-capitol-riot

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Feds Nab Texas Brothers Who Tried to 'Unsend' Messages Bragging About Capitol Riot (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2022 OP
Not the sharpest bulbs on the taco plate. nt Gore1FL Jun 2022 #1
Mom will be proud! Aussie105 Jun 2022 #2
Like trying recall an email after you realize you clicked Reply All. tanyev Jun 2022 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2022 #4

Aussie105

(6,196 posts)
2. Mom will be proud!
Wed Jun 8, 2022, 02:49 AM
Jun 2022

Or not.

Nothing is truly deleted off the Internet.

"Look! We did a thing!"
Send.
Oh damn, incriminating! DELETE!

Too late boys! But you probably have deleted a few months of your freedom.

They breed them smart in Katy, Texas!

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