Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War

regdog said:

They tried to flood Twitter with Wh*teLiv^sMa^^er and Blu+Liv*sMa&&er and Koren Pop fans more commonly known as KPop fans, flooded both hashtags with videos and pictures of K-Pop and the Bl*e was also overtaken with pitcures of blue cartoon, anime and other characters.

A small way to fight back but fight back they did and owned both hashtags.

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Fargo, ND (Valley News Live)- Fargo Police and the city of Fargo have announced that Deputy Chief Todd Osmundson has been suspended.

Chief Todd has suspended Deputy Chief Osmundson for one week of unpaid leave, effective immediately.

Osmundson was reportedly seen in the crowd of protesters undercover on May 30th, holding a beer and yelling obscenities about Police.

According to the release, he was acting on his own and did not have permission to do so.

Chief Todd says that Osmundson "has accepted full ownership of his actions.”

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MINOT, N.D. — In a June 1 email sent to all of the police department, Fargo Deputy Chief of Police Todd Osmundson apologized for activities at the George Floyd protest in downtown Fargo that other officers have called into question.
Osmundson admitted, among other things, to carrying a beer can and shouting “f**k the cops” with protesters.

According to Osmundson’s lengthy, five-page explanation email, after participating in uniform at a peaceful protest earlier in the day, he decided to change into civilian clothes, complete with a COVID-19 protective mask and sunglasses, and infiltrate the protesters in downtown Fargo.

I obtained the email by way of an open records request after being tipped off to its existence by a source.

It was redacted by the Fargo Police Department. The information obscured, they claim, is allowed to be redacted because it is related to undercover police work or law enforcement techniques and procedures.

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MaeZe said:

I couldn't get past the log-in screen on the above link. Found this looking for other copies of the report.

Suspended and supposedly was acting on his ownNot all that harsh of a punishment given the circumstances and his rank. He should have at least been demoted.

And inconsistent with this bit about the redacted email noted above: Headline of the DaySo maybe not on his own? Lying going on either way.

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Roxxsmom said:

Very good question. If he's acting alone, how can he be under cover? Which is it?

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A document pushed by Washington’s intelligence sharing center discussed a widely debunked theory that Antifa was potentially rioting in local communities.

In an interagency communication sent to local police departments earlier this month, an official with a Washington-state fusion center told cops to look out for members of Antifa traveling to their cities to potentially riot. These claims are unsubstantiated and have largely been debunked across the country.

The news signals how what amounts to a conspiracy theory has permeated through local communities, right through federal law enforcement, and up to the President. Antifa is not an official, centralized group, and instead a general movement of activists who have anti-fasicst worldviews, although President Trump has expressed willingness to designate it as a terrorist organization.

"We are getting requests to follow-up on potential ANTIFA groups coming to local jurisdictions for an unknown purpose, potentially to agitate crowds and create an environment for rioting," a June 2 Get The Word Out (GTWO) alert written by Lieutenant Curt Boyle, director of the Washington State Fusion Center, reads. Fusion Centers are state-operated organizations that aggregate and share law enforcement and surveillance information between state, local, and federal agencies. Motherboard obtained the document through a public records act request. ...

For the past several weeks local communities have been awash with claims that Antifa is bussing members into local areas to cause havoc. NBC News found that these claims went viral on digital neighborhood platforms such as Nextdoor and in group texts, with some of the posts featuring a tweet from a fake Antifa account that was actually created by white nationalist group Identity Evropa. President Trump and senior members of the administration have amplified the conspiracy theory further, with Trump suggesting that Martin Gugion, 75, who was seriously injured after Buffalo, New York police pushed him to the ground, was an "ANTIFA provocateur." There is no evidence to support this claim at all. Attorney General William Barr has also claimed Antifa is linked to the unrest without providing evidence.

But multiple, independent journalistic analyses have found no evidence of such Antifa interference. NPR reviewed court documents of 51 individuals facing federal charges in connection with the unrest; the outlet found that at the time of writing none are alleged to have links to Antifa. The Daily Beast also found that none of the 22 criminal complaints related to the first wave of protest charges mention Antifa in any way. The Associated Press analyzed court records and other information related to 217 people arrested recently in Minneapolis and the District of Columbia, and found that rather than outside agitators, more than 85 percent of those arrested were local residents.

An internal FBI alert said the Bureau's Washington Field Office had no intelligence indicating Antifa involvement in violence during May 31 demonstrations in the DC area, The Nation reported.

Other agencies are acting on the information swirling about Antifa. On Tuesday The Intercept reported how a Twitter user jokingly tweeted that they were the leader of a local Antifa chapter. An FBI official then contacted the person and asked if they wanted to become an informant. ...

The guidance from the fusion center said that some of its information came from the National Association of Chain Drugs Stores, which apparently said that "looters [are] specifically targeting pharmacies and drug stores secured within … What we have seen in Washington is rioters and looters hitting the pharmacy or drug store if it's within the path of their movement of destruction. We haven't seen specially targeted attacks on pharmacies or drug stores."

Mike Harden, the police chief of the Lake Forest Park Police Department, a suburb of Seattle, forwarded the entire message to his police department. "Please keep an eye on Rite Aid," he said.

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