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reACTIONary

(7,162 posts)
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 01:38 PM Jun 2021

Unmasking the far right: An extremist paid a price when his identity was exposed online

Unmasking the far right: An extremist paid a price when his identity was exposed online

Source: Washington Post, June 21, 2021 at 8:28 a.m. EDT

Jedeed yelled at the man to stop touching her. A crowd formed around her and another journalist, with unmasked men screaming at them from all directions. Jedeed kept her camera rolling, and when she got away from the crowd, she uploaded video of the incident to YouTube and Twitter, and it went viral.

Reaction was swift.

The man in the flag mask was quickly identified as Washington state resident Edward Jeremy Dawson by a local antifa group. Twitter users mining public records later released his address and phone number.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/doxing-far-right-violent-extremists/2021/06/20/35f730e2-ba68-11eb-a5fe-bb49dc89a248_story.html

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Unmasking the far right: An extremist paid a price when his identity was exposed online (Original Post) reACTIONary Jun 2021 OP
Too bad, not sad bottomofthehill Jun 2021 #1
They sound like good fascist types... gohuskies Jun 2021 #2
Womp womp TheRealNorth Jun 2021 #3

bottomofthehill

(9,390 posts)
1. Too bad, not sad
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 01:56 PM
Jun 2021

This asshole earned it and got what was coming. Who would keep an asshole like this on the payroll and who would hire him.

gohuskies

(1,229 posts)
2. They sound like good fascist types...
Mon Jun 21, 2021, 02:44 PM
Jun 2021

These low intellect morons deserved what has happened to them. White extreme christianity is totally antithetical to sane people no matter the ethnicity. These yahoos are only sorry they got exposed and that their bigotry is public knowledge and having consequences. They will probably end up using their pickup truck to harm others and need to be closed monitored by the FBI.

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