It Took Twitter Only 90 Minutes to Track and Knock Out a Nazi

[Coventina]

On Sunday, a Twitter user named @bigotbasher posted a photo of a man riding a bus in Seattle with a swastika armband.

#AntiFascistAlert

Nazi shit head seen on D line headed to downtown #Seattle

Submitter said they were harassing a black man on the bus pic.twitter.com/ianQUnyCsC

— BabyGoose (@bigotbasher) September 17, 2017
The same user later posted a screen capture of this text:


#AntifascistAlert pic.twitter.com/k1U7SunFR7

— BabyGoose (@bigotbasher) September 17, 2017
Shortly after, this was posted:

#AntifascistAlert

Fuck off Nazi punks!#Seattle won't tolerate your bullshit

Good work folx pic.twitter.com/nUQzqpZfcc

— BabyGoose (@bigotbasher) September 17, 2017
The total time elapsed from the first tweet until the last? Just under 90 minutes.

The full YouTube video was quickly posted (it’s currently at the top of the Seattle subreddit). You can watch it below, though be warned, it’s a graphic video of a guy (albeit a guy wearing a swastika armband) getting knocked out. (And, for what it’s worth, our stance at Select All is officially pacifist, if only because we are all very physically weak.)


Another user, @teethnclaws, who also posted about the same man in downtown Seattle, spoke to BuzzFeed via DM defending the punch. “I would say that we successfully identified, tracked and coordinated to neutralize a clear and present danger to Seattle,” @teethnclaws wrote. “Whether we coordinated the actual punch or not, I, for one, applaud the anonymous hero.”

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/09/seattle-nazi-knocked-out-in-video-after-twitter-tracks-him.html

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Awesome to see Nazis get punched!

[MontanaMama]

1. Sure wish twitter would

knock out the nazis in the WH.

[dalton99a]

2. Good job.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. This was posted a few years ago here.

Always like the video when it gets posted.

[BatteriesNotNeeded]

4. hope it makes those Nazi's afraid

I've had to deal with bullies a lot in my life and have come to the belief that being a bigger bully is the only way to get them to leave you alone. It creates a difficult change for me, as I am a pacifist by nature, but that didn't stop the bullying.

[bmbmd]

5. I own a Swastika armband

and an SS band, as well. They were given to me by my late father years after he had "taken them from a guy" during the war. I never asked, he never told. He would not want to see them worn ever again, and was not a man to be trifled with.

[marble falls]

6. I don't want anyone punched, not even me.