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An image that appeared to capture a member of an anti-fascist group beating a U.S. police officer with a club during a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is fake.
The doctored photograph, the Associated Press and Snopes.com found, turned out to be a Getty Image shot in 2009 during clashes between police officers and protesters in Athens, Greece. An Antifa, or antifacist, logo was digitally superimposed onto the jacket of a protester, who is seen attacking an officer with a blunt object.
The image was widely shared shortly after Saturdays car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, which followed a rally organized by neo-Nazis and white nationalists to protest the relocation of a Confederate statute. Some users flagged the photo on Twitter.
The fake image circulated among social media accounts that opposed anti-fascist activists and was often used to support President Donald Trumps statement that both sides were to blame for the Charlottesville violence.
Anti-fascists comprised a small portion of the counter-protesters who opposed the white nationalist rally over the weekend. NewsHour reporters in Charlottesville said they did not see a large Antifa presence in the crowd of counter-protesters, who were largely peaceful.
Charlottesville native Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in the car attack. Authorities charged suspect James Alex Fields Jr., 20, with second-degree murder in Heyers death.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/photo-antifa-man-assaulting-officer-doctored-analysis-shows/
original photo:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/6753496/Greece-riots-masked-youths-smash-store-windows-and-hurl-firebombs-at-riot-police-in-Athens.html?image=19
procon
(15,805 posts)see fake news and doctored images like this, will never see a retraction. Fox News will not reveal that is was a hoax, Breitbart won't show them how the original photo was altered to dupe them, and Limbaugh will never criticize the rightwing groups who promoted the deception.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,013 posts)Bad republican photoshops fool no one but their own stupid base.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)..Doctored Photos are pretty much laughed at on Twitter.
And The people who post them hate the fact that they own this
all ALONE. They want you to look away.