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Lol! The second thing you said about the FBI having proof of spooky "false flag" operations conducted by "white supremacists" is a fiction pulled straight from your colon. But I can shed some light on the "Umbrella man" story.
The legend of 'Umbrella Man', a protester dressed in far-left "blackbloc" garb who was recorded on video smashing the windows of an Autozone as the initial rioting in Minneapolis was just underway, goes like this.
The identification of Umbrella man as a member of the "Aryan Cowboys" biker club is the second failed attempt by leftwing cybersleuths to attribute Umbrella Man to some kind of "false flag" theory. Initially, they misidentified the culprit as a St. Paul police officer. This false identification flew around leftwing Twitter for a day or two before it was refuted by officials. The poor guy was on duty in St. Paul, with radio chatter as proof. What it did prove is that our leftwing cybersleuths had no real evidence that Umbrella Man was other than the anarchist rioter he appeared to be and were merely desperate to make the optics of someone in their uniform starting the riot go away. In the third night of rioting, The Mayor, Jacob Frey, issued a hysterical tweet attributing all of the violence to the mafia, "white supremacists" and "foreign actors" (by which we may suppose he meant Putin?). What an embarrassment for everyone. After that, the case seemed to get cold.
Months later, a far-left activist published a story to Facebook about a harrowing incident of close contact with literal, honest to god nazis. She had sat down to eat at a bar and grill in Stillwater and, to her fright and discomfort, Scary White Men also came to patronize the same restaurant. In her lengthy account, she weaves a tale of being victimized by non-physical, non-verbal, proximal intimidation and harassments which amounts to this when understood in a realistic context: She read the patches on their vests, threw a ****fit, demanded to see the manager and have the manager eject them for offending her sensibilities, failing this she prevailed upon the waitstaff to comfort and "protect" her, called the police to see if the police could arrest these evil restaurant-goers, when told that it's not a crime to be a white dude in public, she went back to the restaurant to stalk and photograph the men. Then she wrote it all down in a FB post. In the comments, she traded remarks about doxxing with another activist. That was the story of the "Aryan Cowboys". For a couple weeks, the far-left activist and her comrades set themselves to the task of doxxing the men from her photos. One among them, perhaps the only one they thought they'd identified, would be selected to be the "white supremacist false flag agent provacateur" of the "Umbrella man" intrigue.
Subsequently, about a month later, police received an anonymous tip identifying the mysterious Umbrella Man as one of these very restautrant-goers. The police, eager to mitigate their boss' gaffe from a month prior, announced the issuance of a warrant based on this anonymous sleuth's tip. This was enough information for corporate media outlets both local and national to announce the discovery of a basis for the left's very silly conspiracy theory about "white supremacist false flag agent provacateurs" contriving to make the left look responsible for all of the revolutionary violence they at the same time valorize and brag about.
Fourteen months later, with no arrest and no charges, it would appear that the lead was false and "Umbrella Man" remains at large. Perhaps "just an idea" in FBI Director Wray's reckoning.
This isn't about cyber sleuths. After the events, I posted links on a number of threads here to a Minneapolis police report on "umbrella man", a link to an FBI report on unmarked SUV's shooting and killing a courthouse guard, and other LE and FBI reports, like the one concluding that there was no Antifa presence during the summers events. I'm not looking all that up again. The FBI got their info from agents inside some of the extreme Right movements, from agents piecing together social media communications starting months in advance of the events, warning mayors and governors of a planned outbreak of violence from the Right, and from agents following the evolution of domestic terrorism since Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City bombing), if not earlier.
Republicans here keep wrongly ranting about all the BLM violence - which by the way, is mostly property, not death, as with Kyle Rittenhouse and other white criminals. So you might like to know that in fact only about 6%-7% of the BLM-type demonstrations resulted in violence.
This so totally cracks me up. What the heck do statistics have to do with anything? We all know how easily statistics are manipulated. Is 6% to 7% the total number of protests, so 3 people with placards is counted the same as 300,000 people in Los Angeles?
We SAW the fires in Minneapolis, we saw the fires in Seattle and Portland, we saw the police cars burning in Philadelphia and the other fires, we saw the fires and looting in Los Angeles, we saw the church burning in Washington DC, we saw the mobs attack CNN in Atlanta and so many other violent attacks, including in Kenosha.
It is easy to manipulate statistics and make them say whatever it is you wish them to say.
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What people forget - especially gullible people who don't understand how the media works
I find it hilarious you think YOU know how the media works.
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is that low-end news outlets like to present the most sensational stories possible, and unfortunately Trump only escalated the idea that "news" should be sensational or exciting.
I find it hilarious you think that "low end news outlets" are the ones that put out news you don't like and the ones you think of as "high end news outlets" are the ones that spent years spreading a sensational and exciting lie about Donald Trump and the Russians. In breaking news now, arrests are being made for that false narrative. The WaPo is having to walk back stories as we speak.
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93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful
The myth of BLM being anything about black lives mattering.
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