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Another example of how Seattle Police exploit local rightwing media to help spread their disinformation...
Here is a bunch of fear-mongering nonsense from a local writer:
https://lynnwoodtimes.com/2020/08/02/hundreds-of-blm-supporters-storm-snohomish-county-neighborhood-to-protest-at-seattle-police-chief-carmen-bests-home/
Repeated at the national level by another local idiot: https://thepostmillennial.com/hundreds-of-blm-activists-target-seattle-police-chiefs-home-stopped-by-neighbours/
Here is a bunch of fear-mongering nonsense from a local writer:
https://lynnwoodtimes.com/2020/08/02/hundreds-of-blm-supporters-storm-snohomish-county-neighborhood-to-protest-at-seattle-police-chief-carmen-bests-home/
Repeated at the national level by another local idiot: https://thepostmillennial.com/hundreds-of-blm-activists-target-seattle-police-chiefs-home-stopped-by-neighbours/
Now it's been printed twice, which is good enough for rightwing talk radio and Fox News to repeat, so we can expect it to be those places by this afternoon. And it's not just these small publications... The Seattle Times has been responsible for this same sort of thing recently.
This is what we're combating. A professional disinformation and PR campaign targeting the people of Seattle... The goal not just being to stop the Defund vote, but to fear-monger to a broader audience and build the conservative movement nationwide.
Wow, I'm starting to feel like I'm clairvoyant. Of course, I'm not, this is just all so cynically predictable. Here is Q13 repeating the false claims that started in the Lynnwood article...
