https://www.inquirer.com/news/philly-protests-arrests-fbi-lore-elisabeth-blumenthal-george-floyd-20200617.html
By Jeremy Roebuck
The Philadelphia Inquirer
June 17, 2020
As demonstrators shouted, fires burned outside City Hall, and Philadelphia
convulsed with outrage over the death of George Floyd, television news
helicopters captured footage of a masked woman with a peace sign tattoo and
wearing a light blue T-shirt setting a police SUV ablaze.
More than two weeks after that climactic May 30 moment, federal authorities say
they’ve identified the arsonist as 33-year-old Philadelphia massage therapist
Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal by following the intricate trail of bread crumbs she
left through her social media history and online shopping patterns over the
years.
The path took agents from Instagram, where amateur photographers also captured
shots of the masked arsonist, to an Etsy shop that sold the distinctive T-shirt
the woman was wearing in the video. It led investigators to her LinkedIn page,
to her profile on the fashion website Poshmark, and eventually to her doorstep
in Germantown.
Their pursuit, described in court filings this week, sheds light on the extent
to which the FBI and Justice Department have used news footage, online
histories, and social media footprints to track down and identify demonstrators
believed to be responsible for acts of violence or property destruction.
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