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The man on the right isn’t Derek Chauvin. He isn’t a cop. He is Jonathan Lee Riches, a notorious con man, troll and prankster, not to mention the "world& #39;s most litigious man." Riches injects himself, indefensibly, into tragic news events, even if it means going to prison. https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1265623592764534784">https://twitter.com/icecube/s...
After Sandy Hook, Riches violated parole to travel to CT and pose as shooter Adam Lanza& #39;s uncle. Prison followed.
In 2018, he suckered the New Yorker at a Trump rally by posing as a Jew four days after the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jonathan-riches-new-yorker_n_5c5484a4e4b00187b550918c">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jon...
In 2018, he suckered the New Yorker at a Trump rally by posing as a Jew four days after the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jonathan-riches-new-yorker_n_5c5484a4e4b00187b550918c">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jon...
Riches just emailed me. That pic of him began circulating after he found people harassing Chauvin& #39;s wife on FB and tried to intervene, he claims. FB users assumed he was a relative. "Took a photo of me & spread it like I was [Chauvin]." (He also claims the hat is photoshopped.)
As with any Riches assertion, fact-checking is necessary. This is a man, after all, who posts pictures like the below and doesn& #39;t seem to understand (or care) where the troll ends and the harm begins. It appears he now has far-right connections too.
More on how Riches jammed up the federal court system by filing so many absurdist lawsuits. To cite one example, he sued George W. Bush for being a time traveler who plotted with the Duke of Normandy to "pervert the English Dictionary and Law." https://web.archive.org/web/20130125201309/http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201302/lawsuit-sue-jonathan-lee-riches">https://web.archive.org/web/20130...
