Police documents obtained by nonprofit Property of the People shows cops getting lots of absurd "ANTIFA/BLM" tips from paranoid, dipshit fascists last year (in the midst of the uprisings) & cops actually taking these absurd claims seriously. https://www.thedailybeast.com/documents-reveal-cops-chasing-absurd-antifa-and-blm-tips

In June 2020, a paranoid fascist in Anacortes, Washington contacted cops on the NextDoor app about a man with bleached blond hair merely making a mean face when he looked at her fascist signs.

Her retired school principal friend claimed the man was an "Antifa or BLM scout."

"The Skagit County Sheriff forwarded the message to the Anacortes Police Department. The sheriff’s office told The Daily Beast they’d forwarded the message because the tipster lived in Anacortes."

In June 2020, an anonymous tipster told Anacortes cops that her "ex husband is in a group with antifa" & that they were going to Anacortes to "break up a group." The police chief John Small took it seriously & emailed other cops in case antifascists came to "wreak their havoc."

"Contacted by The Daily Beast, Small said none of those supposed threats were ever substantiated, but that it wasn’t unusual for police to forward tips among law enforcement agencies."

"In Coquille, Oregon, last summer, a sheriff helped fan antifa fears when he posted on Facebook that '3 buss [sic] loads of ANTIFA protestors are making their way from Douglas County headed for Coquille then to Coos Bay.'

The fabled buses never appeared."

"And when a hoaxer publicized a fake antifa flag-burning event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July, police arrived at the scene that was overrun with far-right groups who had come to oppose the left."

Last year, a paranoid fascist saw a circle A & "ACAB" tagged on port-a-potties in a gravel pit near a boat launch & leaped to the idea that antifascists might try to blow up a dam. A sergeant ordered the area to be monitored & claimed antifascists used it as a “training area.”