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applegrove

(118,015 posts)
Tue May 1, 2018, 06:41 PM May 2018

Fake antifa posts reportedly tricked police into massive show of force for neo-Nazi rally

CASEY MICHEL at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/fake-antifa-fooled-police-neo-nazi-rally-7fa23ee4a5a3/

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The post estimated that upwards of 13,000 white supremacists and counter-protests may show up, and claimed that people “will be targeted if [they] wear any clothing supporting trump [sic], America, or anything that leans to the right.”

Lieutenant Colonel Tony Grant, who forwarded the Facebook post to the rest of the higher-ups at the Coweta County Sheriff department, wrote, “Don’t guess these folks have heard of TEAM COWETA!!!!!”

There was one major problem, though: The Facebook post the Coweta County Sheriff’s officers shared with one another appears not to be from any reputable information source, but from the Facebook account of Clay Perry, a self-described “patriot” who said he’s “read [antifa] propaganda for a while now.”

One commenter on Perry’s wrote, “Left alone the Nazis would march right through town and out the other side. Antifa will bring the violence.” Added another who shared the post, “George Soros invading Newnan, Ga!!”

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Fake antifa posts reportedly tricked police into massive show of force for neo-Nazi rally (Original Post) applegrove May 2018 OP
This is how the major violence will start when or if justice is ever done. Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #1
Rattled the shit out of Billy Bob, Bobby Jo, Travis and the rest of the boys at the courthouse. The_Casual_Observer May 2018 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. This is how the major violence will start when or if justice is ever done.
Tue May 1, 2018, 06:42 PM
May 2018

If justice is done, many very high up republicans including the president are going to prison.

The rightwing deplorables wont allow that without major violence.

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
2. Rattled the shit out of Billy Bob, Bobby Jo, Travis and the rest of the boys at the courthouse.
Tue May 1, 2018, 06:47 PM
May 2018

Called out the whole godddamn national guard.

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