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ON LOOTING, RIOTING, VIOLENCE
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RESPONSIBLE (per FBI):
Boogaloo Bois (Trumpists)
Proud Boys (Trumpists)
Militias (Trumpists)
Anarchists (apolitical)
Organized Crime (apolitical)
NOT RESPONSIBLE (per FBI):
BLM (progressive)
Antifa (anti-fascist)
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RESPONSIBLE (per FBI):
Boogaloo Bois (Trumpists) Proud Boys (Trumpists) Militias (Trumpists) Anarchists (apolitical) Organized Crime (apolitical)NOT RESPONSIBLE (per FBI):
BLM (progressive) Antifa (anti-fascist)
SOURCE2/ "Veteran law enforcement officials point to the gulf between Barr's treatment of the left-wing protesters and far more violent right-wing elements whom the Justice Department has not prioritized." https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-barr-barr-takes-charge-of-trumps-crackdown-as-military-tries-to-back-away
SOURCE3/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/who-caused-violence-protests-its-not-antifa/
SOURCE4/ THE INTERCEPT: Leaked Documents Show Police Knew Far-Right Extremists Were the Real Threat at Protests, Not "Antifa"
Link: https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/
Link: https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/
SOURCE8/ VOICE OF AMERICA: Four Extremist Groups Suspected of Involvement in Protest Violence
Link: https://www.voanews.com/usa/four-extremist-groups-suspected-involvement-protest-violence
Link: https://www.voanews.com/usa/four-extremist-groups-suspected-involvement-protest-violence
SOURCE10/ Reducing what's happening now to one tweet kills nuances. For instance, there's no evidence anarchists are looting; organized criminals are. Trumpists are causing violence. Anarchists "riot" with fireworks. Different groups cause different harms. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/04/stop-blaming-everything-bad-anarchists/
SOURCE11/ I'm with the overwhelming majority of Americans who think anyone dressed all in black at 1AM tossing fireworks at a courthouse is doing *nothing* productive and should go home. This is not the feed that's going to celebrate pointless, non-productive, anti-fed *LARPing*.
SOURCE12/ Just as there are many peaceful Trumpists, some peaceful Proud Boys (I think?), and Boogaloo Bois who support a violent ideology without acting on it (but screw them, still?), there are anarchists who are philosophical about it. Totally peaceful. I don't want that lost.
SOURCE13/ WSJ: "What has emerged from the protestsâand in criminal chargesâis a diffuse collection of...self-styled anarchists and opportunists, lone actors and clusters of alleged extremist cells, with a range of allegiances, interests and motivations." https://www.wsj.com/articles/lone-wolves-self-styled-anarchists-the-disparate-actors-accused-of-protest-violence-11591608601
SOURCE14/ SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS: "Those accused [by the FBI and/or local authorities] of breaking the law during the liberal city's nightly rallies don't neatly fit into President Donald Trump's depiction of protesters as 'anarchists and agitators.'" https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/30/anarchists-and-antifa-not-according-to-the-data/
SOURCE15/ As the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS details, the overwhelming majority of arrests have *nothing* to do with "rioting, looting, and violence"âand it's in these *minor* arrests (that often lead to people just being released later on, or simply fined) that we find BLM protesters.
SOURCE16/ As detailed in this excerpt from PROOF OF CORRUPTION published by Macmillan, there's a whole category of person I haven't even mentioned yet, a group responsible for *much* of the criminally charged violence related to the protests: the *police*. https://read.macmillan.com/lp/proof-of-corruption-floyd/
CONCLUSION/ What's going on at the protests is confusing. If you were going to focus on VIOLENCE, you'd look at the police, militias, and right-wing agitators. If you were focused on LOOTING, you'd look at organized crime. And if you focused on DISORDER, you'd look at anarchists.
NOTE/ We know the FBI's position on all of this from (a) internal threat assessments reported on by major media after individual events in D.C., Portland, Seattle, and elsewhere; (b) federal arrest records; and (c) on-scene major-media reports.
All of it tells us Trump is lying.
All of it tells us Trump is lying.
