NYPD: Flower-pots, candles and bike repair-kits are evidence of Antifa-violence.

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/9/1951744/-Police-are-going-to-ridiculous-extremes-in-attempts-to-justify-using-violence-against-protesters#read-more

On Monday evening, the commissioner of the New York Police Department, Dermot Shea, put out a call urging New Yorkers to be vigilant against a dire threat. Warning that the NYPD had found “concrete disguised as ice cream at George Floyd protests,” Shea urged the public to report to detectives if they knew anything about this dire plot. This followed an earlier police alert saying that police had found cups “filled with cement and made to look like chocolate chip ice cream” in the area of protests.

The only thing wrong with this story is … everything. First, the cups are not ice cream cups. They’re clearly small espresso cups. Second, there’s no attempt to disguise the contents as anything other than concrete that looks like concrete. Third, the side of each cup is marked with the percentage of different materials used in making the concrete. Because these cups were clearly created by construction workers testing out concrete mixes for use in a building or pavement, quite likely at the building where they were found.

But this attempt to convince the public that protesters are—secretly, secretly—threatening violence is far from the most ridiculous example of police attempts to justify treating peaceful protesters like a deadly threat.

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Flower pots. Candles. Concrete samples. These are genuinely items that merited alerts from major police departments to convince the public that protesters were planning violence.

Link to tweet

[Ritabert]

1. Desperate to push their fairy tale

NYPD wants to push their Antifa fiction. How many Boogaloo Boys and policemen were there stirring the pot?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. LMAOOOOO

[Newest Reality]

3. For the most part...

Antifa is the equivalent of Emmanuel Goldstein and "The Brotherhood", and that's what makes this dangerous. Like terrorism, it can be a word that is used to manipulate and vilify anyone for political purposes. It is the perfect, empty scapegoat for a Fascist Regime and the name tells you all.

The playbook has already been written and it is not difficult to see it being used almost verbatim in some cases with minor adjustments to the process by editing some of the contents of the propaganda, etc. We would be best of being aware of this and addressing it before the day comes when any of us is labeled, ANTIFA and then dealt with accordingly.

Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the principal enemy of the state according to the Party of the totalitarian Oceania. He is depicted as the head of a mysterious and possibly fictitious dissident organization called "The Brotherhood" and as having written the book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. He is only seen and heard on telescreen, and may be a fabrication of the Ministry of Truth, the State's propaganda department

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Waiting for Willard to appear.

Ministry of Truth,isn't that the RNC or is that Trump's Press Office?

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[pwb]

4. Someone wore their tool belt ?

The horrors.

[GeorgeGist]

7. Cops aren't the brightest.