The Record They Can't Bury

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The Record They Can't Bury

X death rhetoric, local East Texas threats, the church-gun story I deny, and the bodycam Harrison County needs to release.

55 fresh X receipts

Local East Texas record

1 bodycam demand

This is the clean version of the record.

Not a rant. Not a revenge post. Not a call for anybody to contact, threaten, harass, dox, or mass-report anyone.

This is an evidence wall. Public posts. Preserved screenshots. Redacted private details. A disputed local story that keeps getting repeated. A bodycam I keep asking Harrison County to release.

The narrow point is simple: when people keep calling me a traitor, telling me I should die, saying I have no rights, saying people should come after me, and then local people repeat a gun story I deny, that creates a dangerous public record. I am allowed to preserve it. I am allowed to answer it. I am allowed to show the receipts.

Start with the pattern

The pattern is not one screenshot.

The pattern is what happens after the first screenshot:

1. Someone labels me a traitor.
2. Someone attaches prison, death, suicide, or "no rights" language to that label.
3. Someone reports my response.
4. My account gets locked or limited.
5. The original language stays up.
6. Local people repeat a disputed story about a gun.
7. Other people then talk like violence against me would be justified.

That is why this belongs on RealRyanNichols.com.

I do not trust X, Facebook, or any other platform to keep this record intact. I own this domain. The receipts stay here.

The national pressure lane

The first lane is the online pile-on around January 6.

I am a Marine veteran. I was a January 6 federal defendant. I was pardoned by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025. The federal case against me was dismissed with prejudice. Those facts do not stop people from using the word "traitor" as a doorway into death-penalty talk, prison fantasies, suicide comments, and public dehumanization.

I am not claiming every post below is a direct criminal threat. I am claiming these public replies help show the environment being built around me.

These are not the old screenshots from the earlier receipts wall. I searched public replies to @RealRyanNichols, checked what was already published in the other articles, and added a separate batch here so the record is not the same four examples recycled again.

Some are threats. Some are death wishes. Some are prison fantasies. Some are people using "traitor," "terrorist," "treason," and "rot in hell" language as the permission structure for everything that follows. The point is the pattern.

One after another. Public. Preserved. Source-linked in the captions.

This is the pressure lane. The label comes first. The death, prison, suicide, "traitor," or dehumanizing language comes next.

When I respond sharply, platforms act like the response is the problem. The receipts show why that is not the whole story.

The account-lock lane

I tested the standard being used against me. I answered with vague language that could be read multiple ways, and my account was locked or limited almost immediately.

In the same surrounding record, the posts aimed at me included suicide-related language, death-penalty framing, slurs, and "traitor" language. I am not pretending my wording was perfect. I am saying the enforcement contrast is part of the evidence.

That contrast is why the earlier receipts wall exists:

• The Receipts Wall: Every Threat X Let Stay Up
• Banned again for Space Force and discombobulater
• Banned from X for a parody

The point is not that I want everyone else banned.

The point is that I will not let a platform create a one-sided record where only my reaction is preserved and the bait, threat language, and pile-on disappear.

The local East Texas lane

The second lane is local.

This is the one that matters most to my safety because local people know where I live, where I go to church, who my family is, and what county system has power over me.

The local record begins with a public family comment. I asked privately for it to come down. The private thread did not calm things down. It escalated.

That is the record I am preserving.

I did not start by writing a public article about them. I started by asking for the comment to come down. The receipt shows what happened next.

The church-gun story lane

The third lane is the church-parking-lot story.

The official public allegation, as shown in the Harrison County Sheriff's Office press-release screenshot, said I raised my shirt to display a firearm and placed my hand on the grip.

I deny drawing, pulling, pointing, brandishing, or firing a gun.

That distinction matters. The public story did not stay at "raised shirt" or "hand on grip." It turned into people saying I pulled out a gun and pointed it at a vehicle. I deny that.

If Harrison County has the bodycam, dashcam, CAD, dispatch audio, witness statements, and officer reports, then the county has the records that should settle the source chain.

That is why I keep asking for the bodycam.

Jon Costello's own words make the bodycam more important

This video receipt matters because it is not my wording.

In the edited 41-second public clip, Kacie Costello says I "was going to pull a gun" and that I "reached for his gun." Jon Costello says:

"I guess he was worried about the words of Jesus getting smacked him in his face."

He also says:

"Know your backstop."

and refers to:

"the car that he's pointed at."

I am not asking anyone to guess what happened.

I am asking Harrison County to release the records.

What the local comments show after the story spread

Once the public story becomes "he pointed a gun," the comment section changes.

People stop treating this like a disputed court record. They start talking like violence against me would be understandable.

This is why the exact story matters.

If I pulled or pointed a gun, show the bodycam.

If I did not, then the people repeating that story are helping build a false public image that makes threats against me more likely.

What this article is not claiming

This article is not claiming every person in these screenshots committed a crime.

This article is not asking readers to contact anybody in these screenshots.

This article is not publishing private addresses, private phone numbers, minors, medical records, cannabis-card information, or unrelated private material.

This article is not a substitute for court filings, subpoenas, discovery, or public-records requests.

This article is the public version of the record: receipts, dates where available, redactions, source-chain issues, and the demand for the records that can prove what happened.

What this article is claiming

I am claiming the public record now shows at least four things:

1. People online repeatedly attach me to "traitor," treason, death, prison, suicide, and "no rights" language.
2. Local East Texas people have posted or messaged physical-threat language after a family comment I asked to have removed.
3. The public church-gun story escalated beyond the wording in the official public allegation into claims I deny.
4. Harrison County should release the bodycam, dashcam, CAD, dispatch audio, witness statements, source statements, and officer reports so the public record can be tested against the actual evidence.

That is the whole point.

Not drama.

The record.

What I need next

If you have a public screenshot, public video, message, link, or archived post connected to threats against me, false claims about the church incident, the account-lock pattern, or the public source chain, send it through the site.

Do not send rumors. Do not send private medical material. Do not send minors' information. Do not send addresses unless the address is necessary for a legal evidence record, and if it is, mark it private.

Send facts.

Send dates.

Send screenshots.

Send links.

Send the record.

The call to action

There are three things you can do right now:

1. Share this article: https://www.realryannichols.com/posts/the-record-they-cant-bury-threats-rumors-bodycam
2. Submit related proof at /submit.
3. Support the case work at /support.

This site is not social media.

This site is the record.

And the record is not going away.