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https://www.alreporter.com/2021/01/07/no-this-capitol-insurrectionist-isnt-a-communist-but-he-is-from-alabama/


n the hours after the attempted insurrection at the U.S capital, some Republican lawmakers and those sympathetic to the pro-Trump demonstrations began squaring the blame for the calamity not on President Donald Trump, his supporters and fringe elements of the conspiratorial right, but rather on alleged “antifa infiltrators” they said were the cause of the disorder.

“Don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol,” said Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, who represents Alabama’s 5th Congressional District, in a series of tweets Thursday. “All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.”

In a following tweet, Brooks said: “Evidence, much public, surfacing that many Capitol assaulters were fascist ANTIFAs, not Trump supporters.”

One popular piece of conspiratorial “evidence” for this theory was a photo by Agence France-Presse and others of rioters gathered inside the Capitol Building. A member of that group, whom we are identifying as Will Watson from Montgomery, is pictured far left with a large beard and hands across his chest, with what appeared to some to be a hammer and sickle tattooed on-top of one of his hands.


The symbol actually comes from the 2012 video game Dishonored. The “Outsider’s Mark,” as it’s called in the game, is a supernatural symbol given to Corvo Attano, the game’s protagonist, by the figure known as “The Outsider.” It grants the player mystic powers that are used throughout the game.