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(115,695 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)were off-duty police.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)graffiti sprayed on looted stores. Black Bloc shows up everywhere and incites mayhem, Ferguson, the G-20. I was at a protest and saw them walk up to a group of young kids and heard them trying to incite them to smash windows.
TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)When will he be getting arrested now that he has been identified? A cop? Never.
Hav
(5,969 posts)which made people even more suspicious as they investigated it that quickly.
I'm no expert for facial recognition from such a small part of the face, so I don't know whether someone could make a clear case to prove it either way.
When I first saw that comparison, I thought no way, then I thought ok, there are similarities, for examples the cheekbones seem to fit and apparently his ex thinks it's him but that is all Twitter and not reliable. Now, I think the eye color for those two might not be the same.
In the end, we also have to be careful when we send a virtual lynch mob after someone who might be innocent.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)I hope that guy got some valuable info that could lead to an ID on this person of interest...
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)but also for not dropping that pizza at the same time.
msongs
(67,406 posts)dalton99a
(81,492 posts)Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)Oh how convenient -- the protests get blamed on someone else while these tools are doing the dirty work...
FreeState
(10,572 posts)Link to tweet
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Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)Celerity
(43,381 posts)Black blocs in the EU and the US are so often full of agents provocateurs
they are many times just goons for hire under a plazzy 'we are anarchists' bullshit cover
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Did it not just open for you? Should be no need to click link.
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)Celerity
(43,381 posts)entire thing is getting. I think undercover cops and paid goons are setting people up in many circumstances.
cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)I downloaded it earlier to make sure I could view it whenever I wanted as I knew it would not last long.
Celerity
(43,381 posts)cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)They want to distract the public and make BLM look bad, this is nothing more than a way to destroy the integrity of the movement.
There are witnesses to the 6 white dudes starting the riot.
Celerity
(43,381 posts)mia
(8,361 posts)msongs
(67,406 posts)4139
(1,893 posts)Catherine Vincent
(34,490 posts)Aren't they anti Trump?
marmar
(77,080 posts)canuckledragger
(1,641 posts)someone is talking out of their ass trying to smear a group they don't like.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)That was a white man on a mission and the mission wasn't supposed to have some small black guy calling him on it and HIS FACE IS IN THE SHOT.
wnylib
(21,466 posts)as well as CNN, MSNBC, and the 3 networks. Amy Goodman is another journalist who should receive it.
ecstatic
(32,704 posts)from what the police are doing? And it also gives trump, Fox news, and other kkk types fresh fodder.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)to destroy and cause chaos.
My daughter, son in law and grandson live only blocks from this scene. They are terrified.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)live on Rachel. It was a white male.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Nice to know I wasn't imagining it, but I wish I was
oasis
(49,387 posts)Gleeful trouble makers.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Call it profiling, but the guy telling "You're part of the problem" screamed white supremacist, from skin color, hair cut, body size, prepped with a fume mask (when no one else nearby was wearing them)
oasis
(49,387 posts)rgbecker
(4,831 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)He is a well trained outside actor.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)breaking glass as he smashed the windows.)
justgamma
(3,666 posts)Remember this from the Wisc governor? "Madison, WI police chief Noble Wray has asked Governor Scott Walker to explain his statement to a phone prankster impersonating billionaire arch-conservative David Koch, in which Walker stated that he'd considered using provocateurs to create problems amongst the demonstrators in order to discredit the public service unions and their supporters. The chief wants to know why Walker would consider sowing public disorder for political gain:
I believe they do it to Antifa all the time. They do it to a lot of these protests.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Either a white cop, or a paid white agitator!!
What despicable motherfuckers!!
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)yup someone is making this out to be something it's not. Minneapolis does have a problem of white supremacists committing violent crimes. In 2015 they shot a bunch of people at a BLM protest. And white supremacists have long infiltrated police departments going way back decades.
Having a black police chief with a Hispanic name now doesn't change their history of having actual Nazis in power passing anti-Semitic policies while America was fighting WW2.
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)I imagine that someone was able to track him and id him.
Karadeniz
(22,516 posts)They're anti police.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Response to DURHAM D (Original post)
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Mariana
(14,857 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)I need a little more proof/info before I buy into it. If it is true I hope he is already under arrest.
BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)it is not just local cops. A lot of people have sympathy and this is not convenient in an election year. They need to remind everyone that black people should be feared. Also, a little mayhem can give cover for an not charging him.
I really dont rioting is helping anything.
Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)wnylib
(21,466 posts)to remember COINTELPRO in the 1960's.
They were government agents trained to infiltrate civil rights and anti war groups. They provoked violence at peaceful demonstrations. They went to local organizing and awareness meetings to push ideas that would allow them to act like the guy in the Minneapolis video.
A friend of mine was a Kent State student in 1970. The shootings there occurred on a Monday. On Friday night and during the day on Saturday, she saw thes escalation of anti war protests to violence and went home that Saturday. Her parents kept her home on Monday.
She said that several Kent students, including herself, were suspicious of people on campus pushing an escalation of the protests. That's why she went home.
Trump is now using the Minneapolis riots as an excuse to start shooting protesters, according to NPR this morning. Trump has tweeted that the military should be called in to shoot at looters. Twitter hid the tweet as "glorifying violence" but says it is accessible by clicking on it.
Trump knows he is losing the vote. He wants escalation in order to claim emergency powers that he will use against non-white America.
demmiblue
(36,853 posts)I was also listening to an expert on MSNBC who said that some of the fires were likely started by professional arsonists.