merelygifted:

The FBI put out a call to the public to help identify the criminals involved in the chaotic coup d’etat insurgence at our nation’s Capitol on Wednesday. Very quickly the public and local news began providing names and more than enough evidence. They even got fun quotes from criminals who want to believe that they were mostly cosplaying revolution and not really staging a revolution. Of course, Lonnie Coffman, the 70-year-old Alabama man arrested with a gun and ton of ammunition as well as 11 Molotov cocktail devices “ready to go” in his truck seems belie that.

But whether you brought weapons or just broke into public officials’ offices while looting things and vandalizing in the name of “America,” you broke some very serious federal laws. Below are some of the arrests that have begun to get made after the strangely impotent national security response from Capitol Police and our government on Wednesday. On Thursday night, reports came out that Capitol police had made 14 arrests, none of which were residents of Washington, D.C. The Los Angeles Times reported that this has brought the total number of arrests—mostly for “curfew violations” and “unlawful entry”—up to 82 people. The Washington Post says that about half of those were charged with violations stemming from the actual assault on the Capitol building.

The Tennessean reports that “multiple Tennessee Republican House members’ homes and state offices” were searched for evidence by federal agents on Friday. A lot of Tennessee legislative staff members are being put on leave as they are investigated for their part in Wednesday crimes. …