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His phone was strapped to his chest with the camera facing out, presumably recording or streaming.

https://www.nxsttv.com/nmw/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2021...

Let's not forget that most of these bozos can be ID-ed by just drawing a geo-fence around their phone records.

No aerial surveillance was in the air at the time—at least, none of the typical aircraft that show up on OpenADSB during protests in D.C.—so one hopes that there are ground-level IMSI catchers or something similar in use around the Capitol.

Could be a burner, or even without a sim card, recording only.

No SIM card is not a complete defense, but still makes detection and identification somehow harder. Flight mode also helps somehow.

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