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Rubio Adds to Viral Freak Out Over Hippie Jugglers Mistaken for Antifa Invaders
By Josh Marshall
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June 12, 2020 5:28 p.m.
I love this story. Its an amazing story, which is part of the suburban Antifa invasion genre but takes it in an interesting and novel direction. We start in Columbus, Ohio, another city with BLM protests and what is probably best described as an old school hippie bus with all the flowery freeform murals and the like. Its the home of a group of street circus performers who do something called Flow Art which the paper calls an umbrella term for a type of street performance that usually involves juggling and spinning flaming objects. I just learned about Flow Art. Maybe you already know about it. The troupe call their bus Buttercup. Fair enough. The bus is co-owned by Marisa Reese Digati and her partner, Jonathan Bearpaw Crane. They live in the bus.
The crew heads down at the protests and they get stopped by the Columbus police SWAT Team. Its a bit tense but it ends up being a pretty low key affair. Theyre detained for about 45 minutes but just sitting on the curb, no zip ties or handcuffs. Heres a video one of the jugglers took from inside the bus. According to the jugglers, the cops made clear they werent in trouble and hadnt done anything wrong. They just had to leave downtown. The bus was impounded. The circus folk left and picked up the bus the next day from the impound lot. So far its like just another day at the intersection of militarized policing and urban hippiedom. No ones really the worse for wear.
Then it gets weird.
The next day Columbus police went on Facebook to announce theyd finally caught one of those Antifa invasion buses red handed.
According to the Flow Art jugglers all these claims are bogus. On Facebook Digati said: The weapons that were found are tools. Axes for my wood stove, knives for cooking, etc. The riot gear was literally a childs shoulder pads, elbow, and knee pads for sports. Another member of the troupe chimed in: Yeah, theres a hatchet on the bus with a bunch of wood sitting next to a wood-burning stove. Well, duh. The rocks were crystals and fossils. They emptied out a knife block [from the kitchen area] and said they found a meat cleaver.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rubio-adds-to-viral-freak-out-over-hippie-jugglers-mistaken-for-antifa-invaders
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Rubio Adds to Viral Freak Out Over Hippie Jugglers Mistaken for Antifa Invaders (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jun 2020
OP
I suppose the hand sanitizer we've all been using would now be called an accelerant,
yonder
Jun 2020
#3
There are going to be a lot of red faces when they realize ANTIFA isn't a real thing...
Frustratedlady
Jun 2020
#4
Laelth
(32,017 posts)2. Nazis being Nazis. Thank you for reporting. n/t
-Laelth
yonder
(9,657 posts)3. I suppose the hand sanitizer we've all been using would now be called an accelerant,
and masks too - used for concealing one's identity for nefarious ends.
Is there no end to this shit?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)4. There are going to be a lot of red faces when they realize ANTIFA isn't a real thing...
Right? Isn't it mainly an attitude or feeling about facists? Maybe attitude isn't a good word to describe ANTIFA. I hope the RWNJs don't come up with a fake group they refer to as ANTIFAs just to prove their point.