@thesidewalkschool2
8/20/2026
Secret Service interrogate man at his home—over private social media messages.

Agents had screenshots of private direct messages—he doesn’t know how they got them.

He also wrote public posts criticizing ICE.

“I’m for law enforcement—just not corrupt law enforcement,” he said.

“I don’t think that we should be governed the way that we are currently governed.”

Austin Connell owns a concrete business and posts about politics on social media.

Incident occurred in Carrollton, Virginia—the man he was direct messaging with lives in Florida.