Twisted Tea and far-right vloggers: How San Diego is waging an absurd war against antifa

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Down in San Diego the DA is fighting against a boogeyman.

“Having a Twisted Tea can, Stephan said, was an indicator that a person was a member of antifa.”

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Twisted Tea and far-right vloggers: How San Diego is waging an absurd war against antifa
The San Diego District Attorney's Office appears to be waging a campaign against antifa over its protesting against Trump supporters.
8:25 AM · Jun 28, 2022

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A grand jury in San Diego indicted 11 individuals for protest-related acts of violence committed against supporters of former President Donald Trump. It’s a case, brought against antifascist protesters, that’s thorough in its absurdity. Recently, a prosecutor in San Diego attempted to strip the people charged of their constitutional rights, all because they purchased cans of Twisted Tea.

The initial charges, most of which were originally brought in December 2021, stem from a protest nearly a year earlier in the wake of the Capitol riot.

And some of these individuals—whom the San Diego district attorney is prosecuting as part of a “conspiracy” to “incite and participate in a riot” in a campaign she is waging against antifa—are facing longer sentences than many of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

During the arraignment on June 7, San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan requested that the judge grant a Fourth waiver for the 11 defendants. Under such Fourth waiver, citizens can lose their Fourth Amendment rights and can be the subject of warrantless searches and seizures.

Part of her argument centered on her claim that the individuals charged over the protest “stopped along the way in order to arm themselves with weapons.”

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[TheRealNorth]

1. Not surprising

Skittles and a bottle of snapple is enough to get you killed if you are black.

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2. No, not Twisted Tea, silly!

Antifa likes to use "soup for my family" as its riot weapon of choice. Try to keep up, you deluded numbskull, who I sincerely hope is voted out at the earliest opportunity.

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