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Photographed Beating Police Officer?
An image purportedly showing an anti-fascist (antifa) protestor hitting a police officer was circulated on social media shortly after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one woman dead and dozens injured on 12 August 2017. The photograph was frequently accompanied by the claim that both sides (white nationalists and counter-protesters) had contributed to the violence, and that while Republicans had denounced racists, Democrats had not denounced antifa protestors:
This is not a genuine photograph of an antifa protestor striking a police officer. This image was digitally manipulated to add the antifa logo to an unrelated photograph.
The real image was taken in Athens, Greece in December 2009 during a demonstration on the one-year anniversary of the death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old who was killed by a police officer. Photographer Milos Bicanski took the photograph, which is available on Getty Images with the following caption:
Greek youths clash with riot police during a demonstration commemorating the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by police a year ago, on December 6, 2009 in central Athens, Greece. Two police officers will go on trial in the new year for the murder of Grigoropoulos.
The protesters jacket in the original image was blank.The antifa logo was digitally added to this image, which was then reshared as if it depicted a recent incident in an attempt to show that both sides contributed to the violence in Charlottesville:
http://www.snopes.com/antifa-member-photographed-beating-police-officer/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
dalton99a
(81,489 posts)Both sides, my ass.
Please do
and show it to mr. trump, as well
kp
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)Like their Leader Trump, they always resort to lying and cheating. They cannot win fairly.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)in long sleeves. It was HOT...August. And definitely no leather jackets. Totally fake.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)If so, I sure didn't see 'em.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)lark
(23,102 posts)They are trying to cover up their violence by saying all sides do it, so their main man, the orange assface, doesn't look so bad, only it's not working. The vast majority of Americans are united in rejecting them.
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)To counteract the depths of "their" LOW?????
lastlib
(23,234 posts)Just a thought.
niyad
(113,308 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)I don't do FB, but I have lots of friends who get much of their "news" from there.
hueymahl
(2,496 posts)Sick and fucking tired of the false equivalence narrative about them.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)We are all anti-fascists are we not?
The deplorables openly say they are fascists if their enemy are the antifa.
And to think not long ago they were calling Obama a fascist.... Like it's a BAD thing. They can't make up their minds.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)benld74
(9,904 posts)Photo on the RIGHT, can be found ALL OVER THE PLACE.
And it resides in the following domains
Infowars
Nationalreview
StormFront
Libertarianheathen
Reddit
U know, the usual places
Concerted effort
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)https://www.google.ca/search?q=greek+youths+clash+with+riot+police
It has the text "Greek youths clash with riot police".
Seemed like the most obvious search.
Persondem
(1,936 posts)I posted it to my social media platforms
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)xor
(1,204 posts)I'm not 100% behind a lot of antifa's tactics and the rhetoric of some, but this fake bullshit is infuriating. Even more when it's obviously fake and can be confirmed with a little bit of effort, but people people just love seeing/hearing/reading things that confirm whatever it is they want to believe.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)heads.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)I'm sure Team Trump has already phoned up O'Keefe to get his opratives to carry some Antifa signs and then break windows,roll a car or two,start fires,beat up on another O'Keefe oprative and then they BOTH suddenly disappear after a hundred pics have been taken.
Watch for it................