WA cops confuse a patch for the heavy metal band ANTHRAX with ANTIFA

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Sheriff's Dept. & WA Attorney General's Office confuse a patch for the heavy metal band ANTHRAX with ANTIFA, as revealed in new docs we obtained and shared w/ @KELLYWEILL & @thedailybeast #FOIA

Cops Confuse ‘ANTHRAX’ With ‘ANTIFA’ in Hunt for Violent Protester
The police bulletin’s mention of an “ANTIFA” patch worn by a gun-wielding man might have made officers fear violence on the left. But it was just the logo of a metal band.
thedailybeast.com
9:04 AM · Jun 17, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cops-confuse-anthrax-with-antifa-in-hunt-for-violent-protester

A man who drew a gun and put a protester in a headlock at a “Back The Blue” rally during the peak of police-brutality protests last year openly displayed anti-fascist sympathies, according to a confidential police bulletin circulated months later.

“‘ANTIFA’ is a patch on the right shoulder of the subject,” reads the bulletin, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Beast.

But the patch does not say “ANTIFA” at all. It’s a logo patch for the heavy metal band Anthrax.

Last June, even as racial-justice protests swept the country, one pro-police event in Everett, Washington, made national headlines. There, in what critics described as an unequal application of justice, a teenager was arrested for taunting police with a doughnut, while a pro-police demonstrator was not arrested after putting a man in a headlock and drawing a gun.

But two months after the protest, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office did circulate an internal bulletin about the gun-wielding man, according to records obtained by the transparency group Property Of The People and reviewed by The Daily Beast. The only problem: the document appeared to misclassify the man as a militant leftist, based on a flagrant misreading of his shirt.

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. So, They're Either Morons or Liars

Or both, because if they made this up it's a really stupid lie.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Heavy metal lawsuit coming up