As the rest of America is watching Los Angeles, California get burned down by ‘mostly peaceful’—as some Democrat politicians, such as Former Vice President Kamala Harris and Senator Cory Booker describe them—protesters this time, some online took it even further than just showing moral support to the rioters.
An X user by the username LA Scanner took it upon himself to solicit information about the whereabouts of ICE agents in the Los Angeles area, and then shared that with his followers.
He shared information such as on which street ‘confirmed’ uniformed federal agents were located, or which hotel ICE agents were staying at—some of it in the middle of violent anti-ICE riots.
All this is in line with the far-left activists’ agenda, which views immigration enforcement officers as ‘fascists’ for actually following through with the country’s immigration laws. The X user sharing vulnerable information about ICE agents has put it as plainly as he could himself: on 8 June, he simply posted ‘ICE = GESTAPO’ on X, equating American immigration officers to the secret police of Nazi Germany.
However, he soon found out what it is like to be on the other end of online doxxing.
As the LA Scanner account gained traction amidst the LA riots, right-wing online activists started to dig too. They identified the man behind the controversial account as the 22-year-old Jack Quillin. It was not a particularly difficult task, given that he spoke to the Los Angeles Times under his real name, and as the owner of the LA Scanner X account, during the California wildfires back in January.
Quillin, however, really did not appreciate having his personal information spread online (despite having done that to federal agents as a recreation right up to that point…), so he issued a grovelling apology on his LA Scanner X page, ‘begging’ people to stop harassing him and his family. He deleted the account shortly after.
In the wake of all this, fellow X user Mila Joy shared a screenshot of a Ventura County court record, claiming that it shows a federal judge issuing an arrest warrant against Quillin for his doxxing attack against ICE agents. However, the screenshot in question, despite garnering over 100,000 likes, shows a resolved case for a violation that took place in September 2023.
Quillin himself has since posted to a different Twitter account, run under his actual name, and claims that local and federal law enforcement have confirmed that his conduct does not amount to a criminal offence.
Another X account with the same screen name, LA Scanner, with the handle @LAScanner2, and with the same profile picture Quillin used for his page, has popped up and started posting on 9 June. However, this account is not sharing any compromising information about federal agents; instead, it just shares posts disparaging Donald Trump and Republicans and promotes the progressive agenda.
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