Search Continues for Jan. 6 Vandal Dubbed #CapitolGlassMan by Sedition Hunters

Sedition Hunters provided Bobby Powell with numerous photos showing a man Powell filmed vandalizing the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Sedition Hunters via Bobby Powell

More than two years after journalist Bobby Powell began circulating his video of a suspicious actor vandalizing a large window on the east patio of the U.S. Capitol, the popular Sedition Hunters website created a page for the man and dubbed him #CapitolGlassMan.

The man, in his 30s and wearing dark tactical gear with a green American flag cap, tried to persuade Powell to enter the Capitol through the broken window on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021.

According to the now-iconic video, Powell told the man that would be illegal. Moments later, Powell’s camera caught #CapitolGlassMan pulling a large sheet of tempered glass from the window and dropping it in a heap on the sidewalk.

“I believe ‘Sedition Hunters’ is just trying to cover their own [expletive] by posting #CapitolGlassMan now,” Powell told The Epoch Times on April 4. “…Why did it take 26 months to do it?”

In mid-December 2022, Powell said he sent images of #CapitolGlassMan to Sedition Hunters and suggested the hashtag that the organization eventually adopted.

Sedition Hunters ran a facial recognition scan on its database and developed a graphic with several images showing the man without his face covering.

Powell said it was his understanding that the site would then include #CapitolGlassMan in its listings, but searches of the site on Dec. 19 and 20 yielded no results.

The graphic provided to Powell in December now makes up the top of the #CapitolGlassMan page. The Sedition Hunters listing includes some half-dozen other photos showing the man in various locations around the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“I shamed Sedition Hunters into giving him a hashtag,” Powell told The Epoch Times on Dec. 18, 2022. “Best part? They published pictures of him without his face covering.”

Two masked men filmed by Bobby Powell at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. ©Bobby Powell/Screenshots via The Epoch Times

Powell said he first sent images and video of #CapitolGlassMan to Sedition Hunters in March 2021 and has tagged the organization on Twitter numerous times, asking about the suspicious actor. Eventually, Sedition Hunters blocked him on Twitter.

The Epoch Times asked Sedition Hunters for comment on Powell’s assertions, but has not received a reply.

Now that #CapitolGlassMan is getting more attention, Powell said he hopes Sedition Hunters will feature the second suspicious actor he filmed in the same vicinity on Jan. 6.

That man used a wooden pole to hold open the giant Columbus Doors while shouting, “Hold the line!” and shoving protesters into the building, Powell said. After a while the man got hit with tear gas and fled the area, video shows.

The suspicious actors in Powell’s videos were featured in the 2022 documentary, “The Real Story of Jan. 6,” by The Epoch Times. Neither man has been listed on the FBI’s Jan. 6 most-wanted page.

Bobby Powell is interviewed in Terra Ceia, Fla., in November 2022 for a forthcoming Jan. 6 documentary from The Epoch Times. Paulio Shakespeare/The Epoch Times

Powell has spent much of the past 26 months trying to get the FBI, journalists, congressional representatives, and social media influencers to look at his video of the two men he believes may be federal agents.

In his office, Powell has dozens of U.S. Postal Service delivery confirmations for thumb drives containing video he sent over the past two years. Almost none of those mailings generated a response from the recipient.

He handed out thumb drives to some of the same people at conventions and political events, including the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He handed a copy to Peter Ticktin, one of former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers, in early May 2022.