• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Anyone remember Umbrella Man from the 2020 Minneapolis riots? He was smashing windows and trying to frame BLM protesters when in fact he was a right wing nut job.

    Wasn’t the only case if I recall of that year.

    Boogaloo boys tried to do something similar in framing nearby protesters over George Floyd when they shot up a Federal courthouse, killing a security guard.

    Investigations into the 2020 protests found that the vast majority of protests were peaceful and a majority of the violence was instigated by counter-protesters.

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      7 days ago

      “Counter-protesting” things like george floyd always blows my mind. It’s like booing if someone tells you they beat cancer.